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144 Items in Cart.....................Subtotal: 16045.00


Cyprus
19a
$ 26.00

Aitutaki
3-6
$ 110.00

India
50-52
$ 300.00

Gold Coast
2
$ 500.00

Aden
36-46
f+
$ 70.00

Australia
4
$ 50.00

India P S - Sirmoor
1
$ 45.00

Cyprus
51
$ 21.00

Australia
10
$ 150.00

Aden - Kathiri
14-15
$ 13.00

Aitutaki
28-33
$ 30.00

Bahrain
34
$ 15.00

Bahamas
MR1-MR4
$ 115.00

Br Central Africa
27
$ 250.00

Aitutaki
28-33
$ 30.00

Bermuda
8
$ 17.00

Br Central Africa
12
$ 110.00

Br East Africa
93
f+
$ 60.00

Antigua
18
$ 42.00

Rhodesia
122b var
$ 80.00

Australia
19
$ 13.00

Bechuanaland Prot
38-39
$ 24.00

Canada
109
$ 4.00

Aitutaki
28-33
$ 30.00

Nevis
29
$ 24.00

Aden
16-27
$ 80.00

Antigua
42-57
$ 225.00

Aden - Kathiri
14-15
$ 13.00

Australia
21b
$ 425.00

Canada
131-34
$ 100.00

Bechuanaland
30
$ 300.00

Bechuanaland Prot
38-39
$ 24.00

Basutoland
12 var
$ 350.00

Antigua
61
$ 13.00

Aitutaki
27a
$ 14.00

Australia
5a
f+
$ 400.00

Aitutaki
27b
$ 200.00

Gold Coast
4
vf-f
$ 100.00

Br East Africa
71
$ 50.00

Br Central Africa
10
$ 95.00

Australia
J7
$ 100.00

Aden
1-9
$ 85.00

Br Guiana
103
ngai
$ 75.00

Cyprus
33
$ 23.00

Bahamas
33-36
$ 90.00

Cyprus
51
$ 21.00

Canada
126d
$ 6.00

Bechuanaland
31-32
$ 22.00

Bechuanaland Prot
53
$ 225.00

Australia
3
f
$ 39.00

Bechuanaland
28
$ 250.00

Antigua
31-38
$ 170.00

Aden - Kathiri
20-27
$ 39.00

North Borneo
J14
$ 32.00

Aitutaki
27b
$ 200.00

Ascension
46
$ 25.00

India P S - Bhopal
O43-44
$ 60.00

Aitutaki
4
$ 18.00

India
51
$ 90.00

India
36
$ 10.00

India
52
$ 240.00

Antigua
54
$ 11.00

Antigua
58-63
$ 45.00

India
58
$ 12.00

Bahamas
33-36
$ 90.00

Br Central Africa
3
$ 19.00

India
46
$ 48.00

Antigua
21-30
$ 325.00

Bechuanaland
22
$ 4000.00

Aitutaki
3-6
$ 110.00

India
51
$ 180.00

Aitutaki
18
$ 15.00

Basutoland
18-28
$ 130.00

Canada
85
$ 30.00

Canada
109
$ 6.00

Batum
34
$ 55.00

Aden - Kathiri
20-27
$ 39.00

North Borneo
29
$ 30.00

Barbados
2a
$ 120.00

Nevis
23
$ 42.00

India P S - Rajasthan
53 var
ngai
$ 90.00

Cyprus
35
$ 24.00

India P S - Travancore
43a
$ 26.00

Bechuanaland
1
$ 95.00

Basutoland
26
$ 18.00

Rhodesia
135
$ 95.00

Australia
4
f
$ 35.00

Basutoland
14 var
$ 600.00

India
56, var
$ 20.00

India
51
$ 90.00

Aden
36-46
f+
$ 70.00

India
38a
f+
$ 10.00

India
41
$ 17.00

India
45
$ 27.00

Bechuanaland Prot
41
$ 20.00

Canada
126d
$ 65.00

Rhodesia
134a var
$ 190.00

India P S - Travancore
36-42
$ 110.00

Aden - Kathiri
20-27
$ 39.00

Australia
121
$ 55.00

Bahrain
15-19
$ 80.00

Antigua
49
$ 18.00

Cyprus
23a
$ 375.00

India P S - Bhopal
O55-57
$ 250.00

Aitutaki
5
$ 32.00

Ascension
48
$ 39.00

Bahamas
23
$ 38.00

Antigua
98-99
$ 16.00

Antigua
77 var
$ 100.00

Bahamas
31
$ 90.00

Aitutaki
19-23
$ 15.00

India P S - Bijawar
1-5
$ 70.00

Bechuanaland
13
$ 50.00

Nauru
25a
$ 12.00

India
36
$ 10.00

India
58
$ 12.00

Aitutaki
19-23
$ 15.00

India
49
$ 60.00

Bechuanaland Prot
38-39
$ 24.00

India
47
$ 13.00

Basutoland
11-14
$ 14.00

India
56, var
$ 10.00

Ascension
48
$ 24.00

Bechuanaland Prot
52
$ 13.00

India
44a
$ 50.00

Aitutaki
1-2, 9
$ 16.00

Aitutaki
27a
$ 14.00

Aden
30-31
$ 29.00

Bechuanaland Prot
38-39
$ 24.00

Bechuanaland
7
$ 55.00

Aitutaki
4
$ 18.00

Aden
16-27
$ 120.00

India P S - Rajasthan
55
$ 20.00

India
41
$ 17.00

Cape of Good Hope
22
f+
$ 120.00

India
51
$ 90.00

India P S - Bhopal
O46-54
$ 140.00

India P S - Orchha
19
$ 400.00

India
36 var
$ 10.00

India P S - Bhopal
O56
$ 22.00

India P S - Rajasthan
21
$ 70.00

Bahrain
40
$ 13.00

India
58 var
$ 36.00

India
49
$ 60.00
Minimum for shipping & insurance $ 10.00
Total $ 16055.00

 

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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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