Bermuda Queen Victoria 2d Identification Question

Sorry for the not so clear image, but it should do for my question. This stamp is supposed to be Scott #20, but it is perf 11 instead of 14 and there is no obvious watermark. If there is, it is shifted way off center and only a fraction can be seen. What am I missing?

Did you count those perfs with your sense of smell? I will look at my SG catalogue when I get home from work in the next 30 minutes...

It sure looks to me like it's closer to perf 11 than perf 14... Postal forgery maybe?

Absolutely perf 11 (or close enough). All 4 sides.

There are lots of variations from the originals. The mouth is wrong; the crown is wrong. But the cancel absolutely confirms that it's a forgery.

My 2d.

Thanks @cjd. Makes sense to me. Is it strange that this came from a retired APS circuit book? I would have expected someone to have identified it as such.

Update: I found a matching picture here:

https://stampforgeries.com/forged-s...-of-bermuda/

Never expect too much from any seller. APS lots included. APS is not doing any actual checking. Are they checking that Sc235-240 actually includes six stamps? Maybe. Maybe not.

No offense to APS, but it is no (little?) better than ebay's review and protection; i.e., none.

Especially true for HipStamp. APS store on HipStamp is just a bunch of random sellers whose only connection to APS is that they pay a portion of their sales to them, like a mob boss.

Just checked their negative reviews on HipStamp and in the past 12 month they received 127 negative reviews and 160 neutral. Out of the top 5 stores the runner up has only 23 negative reviews, with other three only having a few. This speaks volumes about how bad APS is actually is.