This Is Nice, Take A Look - Counterfeit Great Britain Stamps Detected

Hi everyone!

This is pretty cool.



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Very cool!

Nice. A close-up pic of one of the stamps would be great.

Surcharged due to washed stamp? What would be an example of a washed stamp? Postmark wiped off? This counterfeit is hilarious and amazing by the way, thank you!

Very nice.

There are quite a few around. The most recent forgery has higher letters in the iridescent overprint and, consequently, fewer lines. These are being used quite a lot.

Highly collectible!

Very interesting find. I would read "washed" as cleaned, attempted removal of cancellation.

Sure, here are better pics.

One picture with upper stamp and more close examination of lower stamp.

Forging todays stamps for postage delivery use?
This is something I wouldnt even thought actually is happening.

I remember my grandfather had bunch of old postal stamping stamps to put cancel stamp on stamps.

That was one of his top jewels in his collection.


I was thinking, where all stamp dies and old stamp preses goes?
To museum or they are destroyed?

I think that forging Machins has been relatively widespread - this one would cost £1.29 if bought from a post office, so presumably there's a ready profit to be made from the practice.

Royal Mail sells many of its stamps through retailers. They get a small discount when they buy in numbers. Forgers use this to sell forged sheets and booklets at a deeper discount to unsuspecting retailers. Yours appears to be a little older forgery. If you look at the head, it lacks the iridescent overprint.

This is what a real one - from the sheet - should look like. It is the older Royal Mail Red 1 colour. Yours is a Royal Mail Red 2 colour. The hidden year code "M14L" is in the third line above the e of "Large."

Here's a sampling of discussions on forgeries of recent US postage:
https://goscf.com/t/47260
https://goscf.com/t/68302
https://goscf.com/t/54496
These have been sold in bulk at a sizeable discount, on ebay often enough.

Thanks for posting the close-up pics.

Even though the details are pretty ineffective, this was done by an organization with enough resources to attempt including all of the security features.

I wonder how many of these have passed through the system unnoticed.

Kudos to Royal Mail for detecting this. The USPS does virtually nothing about Forever stamp fakes and then whines about losing money.