Is This Spanish Stamp Fake ?

Hello everyone !
I know that there's a lot of Spain fakes stamps and I wonder if mine is a fake.

I heard that some people, in this period, were trying to defraud postal administrations and so they were making fakes stamps. And I think that these series of stamps already got falsified !

So, do you think it's a fake ?

CS

This looks genuine - this is a very common stamp (1855-56, depending on watermark or not, this looks like Scott 45 with no watermark, based on the shade), with a typical grid cancel.

Postal forgeries of this 4c stamp are actually much less common (I sold one recently on cover for $185). And yes, both philatelic and postal forgeries of classic Spanish stamps are widespread, particularly for the higher values. Fortunately, there are good printed and online resources for identifying them.

~Greg

The pic is not clear.
Looking at it ; looks like a genuine 4 cuartos and not a postal forgery.
The expression of the eyes and contour are different.The forgery has a meaner look.
Type XIII postal forgery below;



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Thanks for the replies gmot and perf12 ! That helps a lot !

CS