Copy Cats, Copy Cats

These cinderella sheets from phantom countries directly copy designs of Dutch stamps.

The Repoblik de Chabacano set copies the 1954 numeral design.




While these Zenobia ones copy the 1968 Child Welfare stamps.

I would find it very hard to believe the South Vietnamese designer was not directly inspired by the earlier Hungarian stamp design. Interesting to note some communist flags appear on the anti-communist South Vietnamese stamp.

The following is a lineage of stamp designs that are all in some way derivative of eachother.

Every design of Dominican Special Delivery stamp that directly plagiarises the American special delivery stamps of 1922. The only one absent is the E EXPRESO error.

Those are all great finds!

30 cent banknote was a popular design to plagiarise.

Both the design and the numerals were designed by Jan van Krimpen on the request of PTT in 1946, not in 1954.

That Republique Francaise stamp is definitely an improvement over its derivative. Like, a major, major improvement.




I don't think it's fair to say this. Reason being that the German Azad Hind stamps were never issued or used. The Germans printed a whole bunch of these in Berlin, in '43, thinking that Bose (who was one of their proxies and a friend of Hitler) would takeover India in the axis war-effort against the allies. That day never came. These stamps became a type of "Cinderella stamps" thereafter.

Meanwhile, the Indian commemorative stamps, issued in '68, show Bose reading a proclamation in Singapore. Bose died in a plane crash in '45 over Japanese Taipei.

Peru #C165 uses the same poster from the International Pacific Fair held in Lima in 1959 (stamp from 1960) that appears on the fair's advertising stamp, also shown here. There were some slight modifications to the art.

This unissued series of bird stamps from Guinea, circa 1962 (and apparently only existing as deluxe proofs), clearly copies the anhinga art from French Equatorial Africa Scott #C37 by Pierre Gandon (issued 1953).

Wonderful tread Nils

Thank you for sharing everyone. I will now keep my eyes open for theses.

Dianne