BRITISH GUIANA 1863

Return To Catalogue - Issues of 1850-1852 - Issues of 1853-1859 - British Guiana 1860 - British Guiana 1862 - British Guiana 1863 - Issues of 1876-1888 - Issues of 1889-1920

Note: on my website many of the pictures can not be seen! They are of course present in the cd's;
contact me if you want to purchase them: evert@klaseboer.com.

Issue of 1862

1863 Ship, perforated, in corners "1863"

  VI (6) c blue
  XXIV (24) cents green
  XLVIII (48) cents red

Oficial stamps, overprinted "OFFICIAL" (1875)

  XXIV c green

Some of these stamps were surcharged with bars in 1878 (see there). These stamps are perforated 10 to 15.

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

Forgeries, examples:

No clouds in the sky! The corner ornaments are much less elaborate than in the genuine stamps. I've seen it cancelled with a cancel constisting of concentric circles. Next to it a III c red bogus value, made by the same forger.

Forgery of the 6 c value with horizontal lines between the bottom, top, left and right hand side of the circle and the text and frame respectively. Also the corner ornaments are different from a genuine stamp.

Reduced sizes. I've seen the 6 c value with a circular cancel with unreadable name and date. The last stamp has a French "APRES LE DEPART" cancel. The ornament above "CENTS" is wrong.

There should be a dot just above the "U" and the "Q" of the word "PETIMUSQUE", as a part of the corner ornaments. The above forgery doesn't have this. There must also be a dot after "GUIANA" and "CENTS". The "S" of "PETMISQUE" is below the "I" of "GUIANA" in the genuine stamps. In the above forgeries it is not. The bottom inscription of the 24 c is "24 CENTS" instead of "XXIV CENTS".

Mystery stamps, imperforate VI c in blue and even in red? It seems that these 'products' have been made by the same forger. I've seen the blue forgery with perforation. The '8' and '6' are very badly done.

Forgery with smaller lower part of ship and 'Spanish Spider' cancel. Next to it, the same forgery with a New South Wales cancel.

Deceptive forgery with no dot behind "GUIANA" and a very faint dot behind "CENTS".

Issues of 1876-1920

Copyright by Evert Klaseboer