Cyprus Mint Stamps Help

Hi all
Can you help with this lot?
Thanks

What do you want help with? SG will catalogue them.

Thanks
Are they real or counterfeit?

The shapes of the stamps seemed very odd.

They are somewhat curled. There is nothing that would make me think they are counterfeit.

That on the top right is a bit odd, but the picture is not detailed enough. It appears that the curling occurs in two directions.

This looks more like a picture than a scan. The quality looks like a scan. If this page was scanned using an ordinary scanner, I would have expected the stamps to lay flat. But it is not impossible.

Thanks
Appreciate your help

It was these 2 stamps that initially made me ask

The annoying thing about my Empire Catalogue is that it lists 2 pi. stamps. The colour of the 2 3/4 value is wrong, very much faded. It should be purple. The second looks like the blue issue of 1925.

Thanks the 2 3/4 looks blue to me - definitely blue!
Cannot see how it could ever have been purple.
But I am no expert

There are a blue and bright blue stamp. The latter is on chalk-surfaced paper. It is not possible to be certain from a picture, but I am tempted to say the 2 3/4 is bright blue. Both should have a purple value. It looks pale greyish purple. This is so much different from the purple I see elsewhere it either is from a printing with a pronounced 'shade' difference, or it has faded badly.

Reminds me of this thread about colour variation in another of the same series.

https://goscf.com/t/36852

Shades occur, but the yellow-green you posted there also looks faded, i.e., not within the ordinary variation you can expect when there are multiple printings. The one Partime posted appears a correct colour. The green and purple inks were often used for fiscal stamps or postage stamps with those colours were frequently used for fiscal purposes.

During the reign of Victoria, lilac (extending to purple) and green were the only available 'double-fugitive inks.' Although less so during the later reigns, those two colours are very susceptible to fading when soaked.

I suspect some fading has occurred here with the purple value. Since the stamps are mint, it must have been exposure to light that caused it. But maybe someone has a Commonwealth catalogue and could check whether that lists a greyish purple colour for the value.

This one is offered on ebay by bridgerkay with the 1922 blue and purple stamp top right.


And the 1925 chalk-surfaced bright blue and purple (top, second from right).


OP's stamp, I think, is the latter. In OP's original picture, the value looks more purplish than in the close up.

Thankyou everyone for the comments.
Much appreciated

NSK
You went to so much effort- thanks
This made me go out and buy an epsom 850 scanner,
Wow, what an install project on Xmas day.
Here. Are the scans
Regards & thanks

The colour of that 2 3/4 Piastre stamp looks more convincing now,
It is a palish purple, but it may be a a 'shade' that occurred during an ordinary print run. From this scan I would not say it is faded.

I like those key-plate stamps. They are a pleasure to look at.