Shipment Method
First Class

117 Items in Cart.....................Subtotal: 25473.00


New Brunswick
6
f-vf
$ 60.00

Bahrain
72-80
$ 75.00

Ascension
49
$ 39.00

North Borneo
200 var
$ 49.00

Canada
72
$ 85.00

Aden
30-31
$ 29.00

Australia
3
$ 55.00

Bahrain
37
$ 130.00

Canada
85
$ 30.00

Br Guiana
112-23
$ 225.00

Canada
117
$ 15.00

Br Central Africa
57
$ 17.00

Aitutaki
29a
f-vf
$ 12.00

Antigua
49
$ 18.00

Antigua
77 var
$ 100.00

Br Guiana
115
$ 12.00

Canada
168
$ 15.00

Cyprus
41
$ 85.00

Canada
99
$ 65.00

Br Guiana
107-11
vf-f
$ 275.00

Seychelles
9a
$ 8.00

Victoria
198 var
$ 13.00

Australia
3
f
$ 39.00

Cape of Good Hope
60a
$ 24.00

Br East Africa
72-87
$ 500.00

Hong Kong
154, b, var
$ 10.00

Antigua
26
f
$ 23.00

Australia
19
$ 13.00

Br Central Africa
51
f
$ 70.00

Aden - Kathiri
1-11
$ 65.00

Canada
112
$ 8.00

Ascension
10-21
$ 350.00

Bechuanaland
5
$ 17.00

Canada
98
$ 29.00

Br Central Africa
28 f
$ 75.00

Bermuda
10
$ 1500.00

Aitutaki
29a
f-vf
$ 12.00

Bahrain
1-13
$ 150.00

Canada
107
$ 2.00

Australia
21b
$ 425.00

Basutoland
12 var
$ 350.00

Aitutaki
27a
$ 14.00

Br East Africa
73a
f+
$ 13.00

Hong Kong
134
$ 24.00

Ascension
48
$ 39.00

Ascension
20
$ 75.00

India
129-34
f+
$ 30.00

Ascension
49
$ 39.00

Barbados
56b
vf
$ 575.00

North Borneo
J14
$ 32.00

Aitutaki
17a
$ 9.00

Batum
49
$ 1800.00

India
68 var
$ 25.00

Basutoland
18-27
$ 75.00

Batum
27
$ 950.00

Bangkok
11
$ 750.00

Br Guiana
230-41
$ 75.00

India
92
$ 27.00

Br Guiana
241 var
$ 42.00

India
84
$ 17.00

Bechuanaland
18
f+
$ 70.00

Bangkok
3
$ 475.00

Br Guiana
219
$ 28.00

Bermuda
5
$ 23.00

Bermuda
21, a
$ 24.00

Aden
1-12
$ 825.00

India
114
$ 26.00

India
84 var
$ 21.00

Ascension
48
$ 55.00

Br Guiana
210-22
$ 140.00

Australia
19-37
f-vf
$ 450.00

Bechuanaland Prot
42
$ 45.00

Bermuda
7
$ 180.00

Aitutaki
27a
$ 14.00

Ceylon
196
$ 140.00

Br Guiana
O9
$ 6000.00

Antigua
18
$ 42.00

Br Guiana
191-201
$ 100.00

Ascension
48
$ 24.00

Br Guiana
234a
$ 18.00

Br Guiana
176
$ 14.00

India
138-39
$ 21.00

India
106-125
$ 700.00

Bermuda
2a
$ 550.00

Br Guiana
178-89
$ 150.00

Antigua
41
$ 95.00

Aitutaki
5
$ 32.00

Br Guiana
210-22
$ 140.00

Bechuanaland
30
$ 300.00

Br Guiana
J2b
$ 20.00

Aitutaki
18
$ 15.00

Aitutaki
6a
$ 70.00

Br Guiana
244-45
$ 15.00

India
142-48
$ 42.00

Ascension
21
$ 100.00

Antigua
19
$ 60.00

Aitutaki
3-6
$ 110.00

India
58 var
$ 36.00

Batum
51-56
$ 500.00

Batum
30
$ 475.00

Batum
43-46
$ 550.00

Ascension
33-36
$ 80.00

Antigua
55
$ 50.00

Batum
33-46
$ 1750.00

Aitutaki
29a
f-vf
$ 12.00

Br Guiana
176
$ 14.00

India
105a
$ 18.00

Aden
16-27
$ 80.00

India
72
$ 85.00

Aitutaki
17a-18a
$ 21.00

India
117
$ 27.00

Antigua
19
$ 60.00

Bahrain
20-37
$ 700.00

Aitutaki
1-2, 9
$ 16.00

Ascension
40a
$ 10.00

Ascension
23-32
$ 120.00

India
93 var
$ 50.00
Minimum for shipping & insurance $ 10.00
Total $ 25483.00

 

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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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