philatelia
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Captain Jack - my best kiloware find ever!
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What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Bermuda, Austria
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Post by philatelia on Aug 7, 2023 11:16:41 GMT
Pics of the £1 Cahir Castle forgery, from the 1980s Architecture series, compared to a genuine. This counterfeit was, unfortunately, close enough to the original that An Post, The Irish Postal Service, decided to issue a new £1 definitive, featuring Killarney Cathedral, pictured below. (Darn spellcheck keeps changing An Post to A post!)   |
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Post by paul1 on Aug 7, 2023 13:18:57 GMT
thanks Terri - agree, the forgery is an exceptionally fine reproduction - the difference appears simply as a slight loss of sharpness, which might occur naturally on occasions in real life anyway - I can't see any errors in the technicalities of the design of the forgery, and the perfs. are v.g. I like this entire series - I'm partial to a bit of architecture.
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anglobob
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What I collect: France and French Colonies,French cinderellas British Commonwealth QE2
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Post by anglobob on Aug 7, 2023 14:28:38 GMT
An excellent counterfeit item.Normally Irish counterfeiters are not that clever.A prime example is the counterfeiter who filed the edges of 50-p coins to make 10p coins...........
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Post by paul1 on Aug 7, 2023 15:00:59 GMT
I must look out for one of those .........
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philatelia
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Captain Jack - my best kiloware find ever!
Posts: 3,416
What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Bermuda, Austria
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Post by philatelia on Aug 7, 2023 17:11:11 GMT
An excellent counterfeit item.Normally Irish counterfeiters are not that clever.A prime example is the counterfeiter who filed the edges of 50-p coins to make 10p coins........... OMG I think that was the same guy who didn’t get hired for the job as village idiot - they said he was overqualified.   |
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