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191 Items in Cart.....................Subtotal: 20504.00


Bahrain
90 note
$ 18.00

India P S - Bundi
39
$ 11.00

Victoria
225 var
$ 11.00

New Zealand
190
$ 13.00

New Zealand
210a
$ 13.00

New Zealand
229-41
$ 75.00

India P S - Bundi
O1 var
ngai
$ 70.00

Br Central Africa
2
$ 13.00

Bahrain
31
$ 115.00

Cyprus
40
$ 42.00

India
M12 var
$ 12.00

Batum
43-46
$ 550.00

Bahrain
17
$ 11.00

New Zealand
210 var
$ 17.00

Australia
4
$ 50.00

Bahrain
37
$ 130.00

Bahrain
20
$ 16.00

Canada
91
$ 180.00

Batum
36
$ 95.00

Br Central Africa
6
$ 22.00

Bahrain
14
$ 300.00

North Borneo
29
$ 30.00

Bahrain
19a
$ 100.00

Bangkok
3
$ 475.00

Victoria
B2
$ 130.00

Br Guiana
116
$ 21.00

Ascension
47
$ 35.00

Bahrain
1-13
$ 150.00

Bahrain
33
$ 23.00

Bahamas
E1 var
$ 30.00

Victoria
J1-J10
$ 600.00

Aden - Kathiri
1-11
$ 65.00

Hong Kong
132
$ 15.00

Bahamas
MR6-MR8
$ 22.00

Aitutaki
28-33
$ 30.00

Ascension
48
$ 39.00

Aden - Kathiri
14-15
$ 13.00

Br Central Africa
27
$ 250.00

Australia
4
$ 50.00

Br Central Africa
5
$ 21.00

Canada
127
$ 30.00

Bermuda
19
$ 22.00

Gold Coast
5
$ 55.00

Canada
104-122
f-vf
$ 700.00

North Borneo
201
$ 25.00

Aitutaki
27a
$ 14.00

Australia
21b
$ 425.00

Cyprus
51
$ 21.00

Aden
16-27
$ 120.00

Cyprus
41
$ 85.00

Bechuanaland
11-20
$ 900.00

New Britain
5
$ 95.00

Canada
131-34
$ 100.00

North Borneo
J21
$ 60.00

Canada
108
$ 9.00

India P S - Bundi
O4 var
ngai
$ 14.00

Bechuanaland
5
$ 17.00

Straits Stmts.
128
$ 160.00

New Zealand
193
$ 10.00

India P S - Charkhari
9-16
$ 42.00

Cyprus
19a
$ 26.00

Antigua
98-99
$ 16.00

Victoria
223 var
$ 13.00

Bahamas
26
$ 600.00

Bahrain
15-19
$ 80.00

New Zealand
228
$ 14.00

Fiji
56 var
$ 35.00

Fiji
55 var
$ 28.00

Fiji
50
$ 48.00

Antigua
18
$ 42.00

Papua
99
$ 12.00

Nauru
28
f
$ 22.00

Bangkok
8
f-vf
$ 700.00

Bahrain
17
$ 11.00

Aitutaki
4
$ 18.00

India P S - Bundi
O2 var
ngai
$ 42.00

Bahrain
38-51
$ 95.00

India
86
$ 12.00

New Zealand
215 var
$ 39.00

India
93
$ 32.00

Aden
1-9
$ 85.00

India
84
$ 17.00

Bahrain
19
$ 50.00

Bahrain
40
$ 13.00

India P S - Bundi
O3 var
ngai
$ 45.00

New Zealand
197
f-vf
$ 170.00

India P S - Bundi
O2 var
ngai
$ 15.00

Antigua
31-38
$ 170.00

Aitutaki
28-33
$ 30.00

Aden
16-27
$ 120.00

Aden - Kathiri
1-11
$ 65.00

Antigua
26
f
$ 23.00

Canada
109
$ 6.00

Cyprus
51a
$ 30.00

Nauru
31-34
$ 10.00

Ascension
21
$ 100.00

Br Central Africa
7
f
$ 22.00

Bahamas
MR11-13
$ 29.00

Br Guiana
121
$ 27.00

Canada
111b
$ 165.00

Canada
106c
$ 18.00

Aitutaki
28-33
$ 30.00

India P S - Bundi
39
$ 65.00

Bahrain
38-51
$ 145.00

Fiji
52
f
$ 45.00

Australia
21b
$ 425.00

Fiji
54 var
f
$ 14.00

Antigua
31-38
$ 170.00

New Zealand
212 var
$ 11.00

Bermuda
14
$ 475.00

Antigua
57
$ 50.00

India
142-48
$ 42.00

Papua
114-17
$ 29.00

Bahrain
1-13, 14 var
$ 300.00

New Zealand
193
$ 10.00

Papua
110-13
$ 18.00

Antigua
98-99
$ 16.00

New Zealand
210 var
$ 17.00

Papua
59
$ 27.00

Batum
26
$ 950.00

Batum
51-56
$ 500.00

Papua
C5-C9
$ 25.00

Hong Kong
122
$ 300.00

India P S - Bundi
O6 var
ngai
$ 60.00

Antigua
55
$ 50.00

Antigua
41
$ 95.00

India P S - Bundi
O1 var
ngai
$ 100.00

Antigua
19
$ 60.00

India P S - Bundi
O6
ngai
$ 11.00

India P S - Bundi
55
$ 14.00

Fiji
52
f
$ 45.00

Bahrain
1-14
$ 425.00

Aden
30-31
$ 29.00

Bahrain
19
$ 75.00

North Borneo
197
$ 11.00

Aitutaki
28-33
$ 30.00

Australia
21b
$ 425.00

Antigua
58-63
$ 45.00

Batum
49
$ 1800.00

Antigua
64
$ 275.00

Bechuanaland
31-32
$ 22.00

Cyprus
33
$ 23.00

Victoria
J3
$ 17.00

Bahamas
145
$ 20.00

Br Central Africa
7
$ 32.00

Australia
3
f
$ 39.00

Bechuanaland
31-32
$ 22.00

Trinidad
J14
$ 21.00

Australia
121
$ 55.00

Bechuanaland
1
$ 95.00

Bahamas
14
f+
$ 130.00

Antigua
57
$ 50.00

Bangkok
3
f+
$ 375.00

Bahrain
1-14
$ 425.00

Saint Lucia
MR1
f
$ 10.00

Ascension
40a/49a
$ 450.00

Bechuanaland
16
$ 30.00

Antigua
34a
$ 38.00

Antigua
55
$ 50.00

New Zealand
206a
$ 30.00

Papua
89-91
$ 24.00

Bahrain
14
$ 300.00

Fiji
55 var
$ 28.00

Br East Africa
93
f+
$ 60.00

India P S - Bundi
O2 var
ngai
$ 85.00

Aitutaki
19-23
$ 15.00

Aden - Quaiti
14-15
$ 13.00

Bahamas
41a
$ 22.00

India P S - Bundi
O1 var
ngai
$ 12.00

Papua
59
$ 27.00

India P S - Bundi
O1 var
ngai
$ 12.00

India P S - Bundi
O1 var
ngai
$ 70.00

India P S - Bundi
O4
ngai
$ 20.00

Fiji
54d
f
$ 20.00

India P S - Bundi
O6 var
ngai
$ 70.00

Papua
C1d
$ 50.00

Cape of Good Hope
30
$ 150.00

Aitutaki
5
$ 32.00

Cape of Good Hope
40
f/vf
$ 110.00

Antigua
55
$ 50.00

New Zealand
210 var
$ 17.00

Aitutaki
28-33
$ 30.00

India P S - Bundi
O5
ngai
$ 10.00

Papua
102
$ 16.00

India P S - Bundi
40
$ 17.00

Bahrain
31
$ 115.00

Aitutaki
1-2, 9
$ 16.00

India P S - Bundi
O5
ngai
$ 10.00

Fiji
57d
$ 60.00

New Zealand
228
$ 14.00

Bahrain
23
$ 19.00
Minimum for shipping & insurance $ 10.00
Total $ 20514.00

 

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Swaziland Overprints | Batum Aloe Trees | North Borneo 1888-1892 | Samoa Express

Swaziland 1889-90 Overprints

The vast majority of Scott 1-9 or SG 1-9 in collections or offered for sale are fakes, many of them made and sold by the Parisian stamp dealer/forger Mirza Hadi in the early 1900’s.  Hadi acquired or had access to large quantities of reprints of the Transvaal 1885-97 general issues (see note in SG after Transvaal Type 18) and ‘improved’ many of them with forged surcharges and overprints of the Transvaal and Swaziland issues.

Identifying characteristics.

This scan shows a part set of genuine and forged overprints:

 

Note the more consistent positioning and the somewhat cleaner appearance of the forged overprints.  The colors are somewhat different.

Knowledgeable opinion holds that there were 60 copies of the 10s. printed.  All of these should have the design off center to the lower left and the overprint centered and just below the lion and Boer in the shield.

This scan is a blowup from the above:

Note the slight upward tilt of the top arm of the letter ‘Z’, which is consistent on all the forgeries I have seen.  There are some genuine copies with a similar tilt (Column 9?).  Forgeries also have a thin right bar to the ‘w’, while most genuine have a thicker bar.

This last scan illustrates an almost definitive test.  A known genuine 2 pence (expertised by Peter Holcombe and confirmed against RPSL and BPA opinions on several copies of the three top values) was cut in half through the overprint and laid on top of a known forgery (Sismondo opinion).  Note the very slightly longer overprint on the genuine and the misalignment on the letters ‘land’.  This is destructive testing – the 2 pence copy I use was thinned, but the stamp still serves a useful purpose.   Dr. Harvey Pirie was reputedly the first to suggest this test.

Other:  The 5s. in the genuine set in the first scan has a clean BPA opinion.  The 2s.6d. has a Sismondo opinion as a forgery. 

If the name ‘Mirza Hadi’ rings any bells, he was also reputedly involved in forgeries of Italy, Persia and Bushire overprints.

There are other forgeries, notably by Fournier, and several fantasy overprints (see Earee’s ‘Album Weeds’).

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