USA Kansas Overprints On A157 Type Coil Issue ? Not Is Scott.

I have a 2 Cents Washington type A157 coil stamp with the "Kans." overprint.

I couldn't find it in Scott. Anyone have any information?

Could this be a forgery?

APS member #225176.

it is most likely a fake overprint. K-N issues were only issued in sheets. check the stampsmarter.org website for more info. I cannot tell if the overprint over or under the cancel from the scan.

A fake, in my opinion. It appears that the overprint is over the cancel from the scan, but I can't be sure.

The perforations appear consistent with a perf 10 coil ... meaning this is likely a Scott 599 as opposed to a Scott 660 with horizontal perfs trimmed off. The overprints are sheet stamps perf 11x10.5. So I would think this is likely a forgery.
If you have a Scott 634 handy, compare the height of this stamp to it. The rotary coils are a bit shorter than the 11x10.5 sheet stamps.

also the overprint looks a bit too perfect

Also, OP, the KANS. or NEBR. were applied by letter press thus that the letters would indent into the paper and cause a obvious rise on the back of the stamp due to the pressure of the impression. This is often still visible on a used example. were applied as a precancel in the new process for rotary stamps. The value above 10 cents were not done as those were printed on flat plate, not rotary presses. (So much for trusting the memory as pointed out by revcollector below) Inkjet printing is an issue, typewriters cause a paper impression thus standout as faked.

https://www.linns.com/news/us-stamp...-kansas.html

Of course it's fake. But really cool! I found this same fake overprint, identified by the dropped "s", on a 634A about 40 years ago, which got me into really studying stamps.

It makes one wonder why a forger would show his hand to create a stamp variety that never existed.

The Kans/Nebr overprints were applied the same way that precancels were added; there should be NO indentation of the paper, and no "feel" to the overprint. That and the gum breakers (one every 17mm) and the shades (early paler shades, the brighter ones were later printings) are the most important factors.

@revcollector, right, fixed.

My understanding was that the breakers were 21-22 mm apart on those stamps which show two (at very top and bottom of stamps). This is what I have on Stamp Smarter in Bob Allen article, is this incorrect?
Don

After closer examination, it does look like the "Kans." overprint is over the cancel which definitely suggests a forgery. Thanks everyone for taking a look.

The under/over with cancels and overprints is virtual impossible to detect and a poor way to verify. There are examples in this forum which appears to show a overprint under the cancel in one section of the stamp and the overprint above the cancel in another part of the same stamp. This optical illusion has to do with scanning and the generation of the digital images.

But in my opinion it is a fake/altered stamp.
Don

According to the article by James DeVoss the gum breakers are approximately 21 mm apart.

"My understanding was that the breakers were 21-22 mm apart on those stamps which show two (at very top and bottom of stamps). This is what I have on Stamp Smarter in Bob Allen article, is this incorrect?"

While you can get two (very top & bottom), most of the time you only get one somewhere in the middle.

Yes, a Type II breaker as Bob has in his article https://stampsmarter.org/learning/M...reakers.html
Don

My error, I remembered them as 17. It is correct that there should only be one to a stamp, or occasionally one at the top perfs and one at the bottom perfs.