theamateurphilatelist
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What I collect: India, Machins, India, Laos, Austria, Russia, Commonwealth omnibuses, Covers, Birds
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Post by theamateurphilatelist on Nov 24, 2019 8:06:13 GMT
Forgery or just badly printed stamps? New Zealand KGV stamps. The first one/two look very suspect to me. Couldn't find anything on the Internet that lists forgeries of KGV stamps of New Zealand. Thoughts?     |
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vikingeck
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What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Nov 28, 2019 16:49:07 GMT
theamateurphilatelist , There would be no reason to forge such a common stamp , collectors would have no trouble getting the real item , and the production cost of printing fakes would not justify isues to defraud the post office. Genuine enough . There is a footnote in SG Catalogue that " Stamps from Booklet panes often have blurred heavy impressions"
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guyana1230
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What I collect: GUYANA, Surinam, British Commonwealth, Aland, Denmark Finland, Iceland, Japan, Norway, Sweden, USA, Scout Posts, Cinderellas
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Post by guyana1230 on Apr 3, 2020 18:54:18 GMT
Just found this King George V stamp which to me looks like a poorly executed postal forgery, I put a genuine one next to it for comparison
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vikingeck
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What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Apr 3, 2020 19:03:04 GMT
No it is perfectly genuine . We have had similar appear here in another thread as far as I can remember. There is a note in the Stanley Gibbons big red British Commonwealth to 1970 catalogue which mentions the very messy printing found on these issues . Shocking wear on the plates I believe .
A curiosity but not a forgery .
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guyana1230
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What I collect: GUYANA, Surinam, British Commonwealth, Aland, Denmark Finland, Iceland, Japan, Norway, Sweden, USA, Scout Posts, Cinderellas
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Post by guyana1230 on Apr 3, 2020 20:16:56 GMT
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Beryllium Guy
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What I collect: Worldwide Stamps 1840-1930
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Apr 4, 2020 7:00:01 GMT
No it is perfectly genuine. We have had similar appear here in another thread as far as I can remember. There is a note in the Stanley Gibbons big red British Commonwealth to 1970 catalogue which mentions the very messy printing found on these issues . Shocking wear on the plates I believe. Yes indeed, Alex, we did have another similar example, and I could remember it, too. Oddly, it somehow got posted in a thread on the Cinderella board called Forgeries, Facsimiles, Reproductions & Blackprints, which made it a bit of a hide-and-seek challenge to find, but here it is: thestampforum.boards.net/post/85724/threadEdited Note to Admin ( Admin or Londonbus1 ): Many thanks for moving the original posts made by Manish ( theamateurphilatelist ) and Alex. |
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