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Post by sherro on Aug 27, 2018 12:33:28 GMT
I've become the owner of a 4kg hoard of used on-paper Nigeria, unseen for years. I start soaking tomorrow, starting with the £1 and 10/- values from 1953 and 1961. Watch this space  |
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Post by sherro on Aug 28, 2018 4:06:57 GMT
The first batch is ready to go when I get home a bit later today  |
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Post by sherro on Aug 28, 2018 13:47:18 GMT
Half of the first batch has been soaked, I've got fingers like prunes! My drying books are dull, so there'll be some good images in a couple of days.
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Post by sherro on Sept 18, 2018 10:15:03 GMT
Better late than never, here are the results of the first big soak. All in all, not bad for a box that cost me £20 plus postage. I've still got a full box of other issues to get to 1953 10/- SG79 (SC90)- 173 copies  1953 £1 SG80 (SC91)- 16 copies  1961 10/- SG100 (SC112) - 41 copies, and £1 SG101 (SC113) - 7 copies  |
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Post by stainlessb on Feb 23, 2019 0:47:42 GMT
1963 11th World Scout Jamboree  |
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Post by guyana1230 on Feb 26, 2020 16:08:49 GMT
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Post by guyana1230 on Feb 26, 2020 16:09:39 GMT
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Post by darkormex on Nov 7, 2020 23:11:05 GMT
I am currently working on Nigeria, having unearthed a long ago eBay lot that got buried and neglected. If I find anything interesting I will try to post here in this under-posted area of the forum.
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Post by darkormex on Nov 8, 2020 23:57:10 GMT
After sorting, cataloging and, tonight, mounting my Nigerian stamps I came across a fairly obvious fake below. The stamp on the left is probably the real deal, Sc. 615D, depicting a Roan Antelope from a 1992 set of native animals. The stamp on the right is the poorly printed, poorly perforated fake. I have seen what looks like a very similar attached pair of these stamps when I did a google search. There seem to be several different forgeries of this same stamp in fact, all of which appeared on another forum. This is now one of several modern postal forgeries I have from Nigeria that I will likely hang on to just because I think they are pretty interesting in their own right.  |
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Post by dgdecker on Nov 9, 2020 0:16:29 GMT
After sorting, cataloging and, tonight, mounting my Nigerian stamps I came across a fairly obvious fake below. The stamp on the left is probably the real deal, Sc. 615D, depicting a Roan Antelope from a 1992 set of native animals. The stamp on the right is the poorly printed, poorly perforated fake. The forged one is not even the same size. Would the cancellation be forged or do you think it went through the postal system? Is there a way to determine this? David |
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Post by darkormex on Nov 9, 2020 0:35:50 GMT
David ( dgdecker), it is possible it came on-piece in the same kiloware lot that I originally bought off of eBay now more than a year ago. I can't be sure at this point, however, some of the on-piece items that I have seen on another forum show a mix of stamps that have gone through the mail and others with fake cancels. I kinda think this one went through the regular mail because the fake cancels seem to be neat and tidy with clear city names and dates but not consistent with other Nigerian cancels. I am reluctant to pull an image off of another stamp forum to display here but if you search google images for "postal forgeries from Nigeria" you can see what I am talking about. |
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Post by darkormex on Nov 9, 2020 0:37:49 GMT
This same thread on the other forum is now leading me to call into question some of the other stamps I have too. I am seeing others that may well be fakes.
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Post by dgdecker on Nov 9, 2020 0:46:35 GMT
This same thread on the other forum is now leading me to call into question some of the other stamps I have too. I am seeing others that may well be fakes. I was just wondering if the forged one was to defraud the mail service and therefore would have a genuine cancel. as we know some postally used stamps can have a higher value. I would think that modern forgeries are made to defraud the postal system and not collectors. Thanks for the info. David. |
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Post by darkormex on Mar 3, 2021 1:59:17 GMT
In 2010, Nigeria issued a series of commemoratives called 2000 Years of Nigerian Arts. They are lithographed stamps with a hologram applied. In a recent Nigeria lot I received from a seller on eBay the below stamp, Sc. no. 825, shows a sculpture called Lander Brothers Anchorage from this series. At first I was confused...why did the Lander Brothers have a sculpture piece in Anchorage, Alaska? I definitely had to figure this out and found this web page that gives the explanation of what this sculpture is all about and where it is located. Lander Brothers Anchorage, AsabaBut, this is not the original reason I wanted to create a post about this stamp. I know that there was this sort of worldwide fad for a bit where many stamp-issuing entities were putting holograms on their stamps and postal stationery. Some of the holograms have a readily identifiable image in the hologram, but the stamp below doesn't seem to have that. It is just a circular dot with a diamond pattern and doesn't seem to have any type of image that I can recognize. Or is it not meant to have one? Is it just a hologram printed on the stamp for the sake of printing a hologram on a stamp? Was it meant to be part of the Nigerian Arts theme of this series? Is there some secret to looking at these holograms to see the image? Does anyone have any insight into this?  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 3, 2021 7:06:03 GMT
Methinks the holograms were also being tried out as an anti-forgery device. But maybe it was deemed too expensive and dropped out of favor...
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Post by darkormex on Mar 10, 2021 2:49:09 GMT
That is probably more correct than my speculation, hrdoktorx. |
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Post by darkormex on Mar 10, 2021 2:59:40 GMT
Another Nigeria purchase from eBay. This time I found a small collection of pre-independence items on pages from an album. Many of these will be dupes for me but there are several from the Elizabeth era that will fill some empty spaces and there is also a complete UPU set. I will also look over the KGVs pretty thoroughly but don't imagine I will fill any holes in my collection there.  |
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Post by darkormex on Mar 31, 2021 12:15:20 GMT
I paid about US .09c per stamp for this eBay auction lot of Nigeria purchased from a seller in GB. It looks as if I will be able to complete and upgrade the animals definitives set from 1965 plus a whole lot of other empty spaces on my pages.   |
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Post by darkormex on Apr 16, 2021 1:22:12 GMT
I won another Nigeria lot on eBay this morning. I estimate about half the stamps are ones I don't have and there are also some early Victorias from what might be Lagos plus a few others from the colonial period. There are also a lot of more modern definitives that might be varieties that I don't have..perhaps a couple more of the redrawn stamps from the 1969 Animal series are lurking on these pages. The best part is that I paid US .06c per stamp and they are shipping from the UK. I paid US $11.85 for 194 stamps (yes, I counted all of them because the dude didn't say how many in the auction description).   |
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Post by darkormex on Apr 17, 2021 14:07:23 GMT
Yet another eBay Nigeria lot, this time from a seller in Lebanon. This was another good deal in my opinion. I paid about US .07c per stamp.  |
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