Forged Stamps of Hamburg

German State

1859

Coat of Arms

Unperforated

 
Hamburg_1859_Michel_1_Genuine
Hamburg_1859_1schilling_Genuine
hamburg_1859_2schilling_genuine
hamburg_1859_3schilling_genuine
hamburg_1859_4schilling_genuine
hamburg_1859_7schilling_genuine
hamburg_1859_9schilling_genuine

1867

Coat of Arms

Perforated

 
Hamburg_1864_Michel_10_Genuine
Hamburg_1864_1schilling_Genuine
hamburg_michel13_genuine
hamburg_1864_3schilling_genuine
hamburg_1864_4schilling_genuine
hamburg_1864_7schilling_genuine

Forged Postmarks

 
Hamburg_Halb-schilling_Forged_Postmark1
Hamburg_1s_Forged_Postmark1
Hamburg_2s_Forged_Postmark1
Hamburg_3s_Forged_Postmark1
Hamburg_9s_Forged_Postmark2
Hamburg_1.5s_Forged_Postmark1

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The following literature was used in creation of these pages:

  • The Serrane Guide to Stamp Forgeries of the World to 1926
  • H. Bynof-Smith: Forged Postage Stamps of Europe and Colonies
  • R.B. Earée: Album Weeds – How to Detect Forged Stamps, 3rd Edition
  • Bohne: German Philatelic Society Reference Manual of Forgeries
  • Fritz Billig: Großes Handbuch der Fälschungen
  • Hermann Schloss: Distinguishing Characteristics of Classic Stamps: Old German States (1948)
  • Michel Specialized 2015 – Vol. I
  • Helmut Oppitz: Wissen Schützt vor Schaden, Band I
  • Karl Hennig: Philatelische Mitteilungen, No 8, Weimar, August 1925 — “Hamburg-Sondernummer / Bearbeitet, und nach der eigenen Spezialsammlung illustriert von Architekt Ernst Vicenz, Hamburg.”

A common problem among these earlier authors is that the genuine characteristics they describe is not consistent for the different prints/plates that were produced. Their observations (and some observations of the authors) have been summarized on these pages and applied to images of certified stamps in an attempt to weed out inconsistencies.

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