Forged Stamps of Victoria

1850. Queen Victoria. Half Length. One Penny

Genuine vs. Forgeries

Genuine

1891 reprint

Spiro forgery

Forgery

Cut from a official perforated UPU 1891 reprint. Here a faked postmark has been applied to hide the Reprint overlay. The Reprints were printed on paper with watermark type V2.

Forgery

Photographic plate of an actual first printing 1d Half Length. On hard card-stock. Cut from the color plates that accompanied the 1953 book by Wilson, about the Royal Collection.

Oneglia forgery

1850. Queen Victoria. Half Length. Two pence

Genuine vs. Forgeries

Genuine

1891 reprint

Jeffryes forgery

Spiro forgery

Oneglia forgery

1850. Queen Victoria. Half Length. Three pence

Genuine vs. Forgeries

Genuine

1891 reprint

1891 reprint

Forged roulettes

The roulettes do not conform to the specifications of the rouletting machine used by the GPO clerks on the genuine issues. These roulettes gauge about 5.5 – the GPO machine gauged 7-9.

Victoria_1850_Half-Length_3p_Forrged_Perforations

Forged perforations

Spiro forgery

Jeffryes forgery

Oneglia forgery

Victoria_Half-Length_3p_Torres_Illustration

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.

victoria_1850_half-length_3p_jeffryes_forgery_sheet

Jeffryes forgery – sheet of 50

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Victoria

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