Parma Sc.#7

This Italian states Parma # 7 appears to have some type of printing over the stamp. I think it is a cancellation. I find nothing in Scott listing an overprint. I have pictured the stamp upside down so that it can be more easily read.Anyone hade any other ideas?

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Yes, it is a cancel.

Thanks RV. I thought it probably was. Just guessing, but I thought it might read 9 march. Marzo maybe a cognate. By the way, I always enjoy reading your comments. Since I am fairly new to the forum I have been going back and reading many of the old entries. There is a world of information here.

Thank you for the kind words.

Unfortunately their is a very high probability that the stamp is a fake. If you get to any major stamp shows bring it with you. Than hunt down Sergio Sismondo. If he is not busy with a customer show it to him. He will be able to tell you weather it is a forgery or not. But, Fear not if it is. He will tell you to get a Certificate on it or not. Why fear not? Some Forgeries with one of his Cert's. nameing the forger can make it quite desireable! I had 2 Sardinan stamps that I showed him. Same stamp, 1 real and 1 fake. I had both certified by Him. The Orig. sold for $6000 the fake $2700. So, like I said fear not!

Rv, Thanks for the tip!

Would these other Parma issues likely be forgeries also? I acquired a nice old Scott International postage stamp album nineteenth century printed in 1901. It has only stamps to 1899. It is in fair condition for being that old. It has a lot of old classic stamps in it which I am just beginning to evaluate.

I would guess about 75-80% of all Italian States are bogus. MANY of them were Postal Forgeries. A Postal Forgery is one that is inended to be used on mail. It's sole purpose is to defraud the Post Office. I have about a dozen from Italy that were collected by my Grandfather as a kid prior to enlisting 1916. His collecting then resumed in the late 20's. As a result I have a bunch of early Postal Forgeries. Most are quite well done and require an expert to tell them apart!

It is very difficult to tell if these are genuine or not, you need a better picture where you can see the details of the crown.But it is possible they are genuine.But I have to correct revstampman.There are many forgeries produced by known forgers such as Sperati, Fournier etc.to defraud the stamp collectors But the Postal forgeries to defraud the Post Office are a different thing, they are very rare and in many cases particularly on letter could be worth more than the genuine stamp

FYI, I just requested that the admins move this to a different forum other than U.S. Classics. Thanks, Ray

I've updated my site with pages for Parma. +170 images and comparisons of genuine vs. forgeries.

See: http://stampforgeries.com/forged-stamps-of-parma/

There are 5 different Classic forgeries listed as being done on these PARMA 1952 issues . This doesn't include any of the modern junk .Each of these five have different identifying points, the problem with a chat board like this is people comparing one type of fake to another fake .

As mention above the scans are too poor to make any judgement

Some forgeries in my collection . The originals mounted on pages are at the bank .