1862 & 1865. Queen Victoria. 2 Cents
Genuine vs. Forgeries
Genuine
Oneglia forgery
Spiro forgery
Forgery
1862 & 1865. Queen Victoria. 4 Cents
Forgery
Forgery
1862 & 1865. Queen Victoria. 6 Cents
Genuine vs. Forgery
Genuine
Spiro forgery
1862 & 1865. Queen Victoria. 8 Cents
Genuine vs. Forgery
Genuine
Spiro forgery
1862 & 1865. Queen Victoria. 12 Cents
Genuine vs. Forgery
Genuine
Oneglia forgery
1862 & 1865. Queen Victoria. 24 Cents
Genuine vs. Forgery
Genuine
Spiro forgery
1862 & 1865. Queen Victoria. 30 Cents
Genuine vs. Forgery
Genuine
Oneglia forgery
1862 & 1865. Queen Victoria. 48 Cents
Genuine vs. Forgeries
Genuine
Oneglia forgery
Spiro forgery
1862-1866. Queen Victoria. 96 Cents
Genuine vs. Forgeries
Genuine
Genuine – SG #18
No. 39 of 48 unused copies. Ex Alan Chu
Sperati forgery
Small errors in top-right ornament
Weak background lines to the left of the crown
Oneglia forgery
Oneglia forgery
Spiro forgery
Illustration by Plácido Ramón de Torres: Album ilustrado de sellos de correo, Barcelona 1879. Torres sold illustrations to various dealers/forgers from 1864 onwards, as well as made forgeries himself.
Queen Victoria Characteristics
Genuine vs. Forgeries
Genuine
Characteristics
– Typographed
– Background comprises 91-92 lines
Spiro forgeries
Characteristics
– Lithographed
– Unwatermarked
– Ungummed
– Perforation: 11 – 13
– Width of frame: 19.00-19.50 mm
– Height of frame: 22.50 mm
– Background shading comprises 73 lines
– Background shading touches frame lines
– No outline in front of Queen’s forehead & nose
– Cancelled by ‘B62’ in black and fancy cancels
Oneglia forgeries
Characteristics
– Photoengraved
– Unwatermarked and watermarked Crown CC
– Ungummed
– Perforation: 14
– Width of frame: 19.25 mm
– Height of frame: 22.75 mm
– Background shading comprises 93 lines
– Background shading does not touch frame lines
– No outline in front of Queen’s forehead & nose
– Cancelled by ‘B62’ in black.
Queen Victoria
Spiro produced his forgeries in sheets of 25
Stamp Duty. 2 Dollars
Genuine vs. Forgery
Genuine
Forgery
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