Return To Catalogue - Brunswick, forgeries of the 1852-64 issue, part 1 - Brunswick - Brunswick Miscellaneous - Other German States- Germany
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Forgery with strange 'G' in 'BRAUNSCHWEIG' and the '2's different
from the genuine stamps. The bottom label is touching the bottom
frame at the right hand side. I've also seen it with a cancel
consisting of parallel lines. Next to it a 2 Sgr black on blue
and a 1 Sgr red forgery made by the same forger. The 2 g has a
curved scratch going through the 'U' of 'BRAUNSCHWEIG' down to
the 'Z' of 'ZWEI'. I've seen the 2 g forgery with a 'CORREOS'
cancel.
The '1's in the above 1 sgr forgeries don't have a long upper
serif as in the genuine stamps. Also the bottom label is much
flatter at the left hand bottom side. The inscriptions are badly
done.
Bottom left label is very pointy and almost touches bottom
frameline. I've also seen this forgery on brownish paper.
1/3 Sgr forgery on yellow and green paper (it also exists on
white and lilac paper); the left '1' of '1/3' has a too long left
foot. The 'B' of 'BRAUNSCHWEIG' touches the upper label. There is
too much shading on the belly of the horse. There is also too
much shading on the left bottom part of the label with 'VIER
SILBR. PF'. There is a dot behind 'VIER'.
Forgery described in Billig's Handbook of Forgeries. The '1/4'
has a horizontal stroke instead of slanting.
Behrmann forgeries:
Engraved forgeries of the 2 Sgr blue stamp made by Behrmann (3rd
forgery of the 2 Sgr value in Album Weeds). The '2' is curved at
the bottom. The 'S' of 'SILB' appears to be inverted. Also a
Behrmann forgery of the 3 Sgr value ('3's too tall; most likely
the second forgery of the 3 Sgr value mentioned in Album Weeds)
Forgery of the 1/3 value.
Other forgeries exist, examples:
Forgeries on pieces of a letter.
Forgery, made from a photograph. Note the typical 'photographic
dots' (can be seen in the enlarged image).
Forgeries of stamps (one 1 sgr rose with an additional bisected 1 sgr rose) on letters can be found at: http://members.tripod.com/claghorn1p/Brunswick/index.htm of Bill Claghorn; (Winter forgery?). Quote from this website: "these covers first had the cover front with pen writing duplicated. The stamp was then placed manually and hand cancels applied. Therefore the handwriting is identical between examples but the stamp placement and markings vary."
I myself have seen the following envelope with 4 forged stamps on it (with one tete-beche!):
I have also seen the same letter(!) with identical handwriting, but with the stamps and cancels placed in a slightly different position. Could these be productions of Peter Winter? And again the same letter but with four 1 sgr red stamps (one inverted again), but now with cancel 'BRAUNSCHWEIG' in a semi-circle:
I"ve also the same letter with a block of four 1 Sgr black
on yellow forgeries with a '9' numeral cancel adressed to the
same person. The same block of four forgeries also exists on
letters addressed to 'Joh.Rev. Freij' in Basel. I've also the
same letter with a block of four 1 sgr black on yellow stamps
(this time with a numeral '9' black cancel).
(Another Winter forgery)
The above forged letter has been forged by Peter Winter. Everything is forged, the letter, the stamps and the cancels. The letter is adressed to 'Messieurs Pansan et Montgolfier'. It has a 'PEINE 26 SEPT.' cancel in blue. The same forged letter has also been used with stamps of Bremen and Wurttemberg.
(Probably a Winter forgery, similar to the ones above)
I've also seen two 1sgr red Winter forgeries (one bisected) on an envelope addressed to someone in Eichthal.
Forgeries with both front legs together:
This 'tete-beche' forgery of the 1 sgr black on yellow has the
front legs of the horse together
Sperati forgeries:
Front and backside of a Sperati forgery of the 2 Sgr blue,
reduced size
Sperati forgeries of the 2 g bleu and 3 g red stamps
Front and backside of a Sperati 2 g forgery.
Some 'proofs' printed in black with additional violet inscription
'REPRODUCTION INTERDITE' and the signature of Jean de Sperati
The distinghuishing characteristics of the above Sperati forgeries are:
2 Sgr: the background lines in the central ellipse are broken in
many places. There is a dot just below the frame in the lower
left corner.
3 Sgr: The top left frame line is damaged. The upper right frame
also has several defects.
The cancels used by Sperati are:
'BRAUNSCHWEIG 12/2' in a halfcircle
'BRAUNSCHWEIG 15/5' in a halfcircle
'BRAUNSCHWEIG 23/7' in a halfcircle
'BRAUNSCHWEIG 5/11' in a halfcircle
'WOLFENBUTTEL 16/3' in a halfcircle
'WOLFENBUTTEL 6/7 11 1/2 - 12' in a double circle
The following stamp has a strange 'PF', repaired?
