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Return To Catalogue - Bremen forgeries of the 3 G and 5 Grote stamps - Bremen forgeries of the 2 G and 10 G stamps - Bremen - Bremen forgeries made by Peter Winter - Bremen miscellaneous
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ATTENTION: many forgeries exist! I will essentially follow the book 'the forged stamps of all countries' by J.Dorn in describing the characteristics of the genuine stamps. The stamps of Bremen were reprinted from new plates (and can thus be considered as forgeries) by the same firm that printed the genuine stamps: G.Hunckel. They were then offered by the dealer E.W.C Bredemeyer as 'reprints' or 'remainders'. Other forgeries also exist (even some modern 'proofs' made by Peter Winter; click here for more examples of these Bremen forgeries).
1. The 'b' of 'Sieben' is open at the bottom.
2. The lines of the shield can still be seen above it.
3. The 'M' of 'Marke' is cut off by the
containing label.
4. Due to bad printing there are dots in the letters of 'Marke'
5. The ornament is continued into the frame line at the right hand side of the stamp.
Other examples of forgeries:
Bredemeyer forgeries? with the 'b' of 'Sieben' closed at the
bottom. It has a very small dot above the 'i' in 'Sieben' when
compared to a genuine stamp. Also the vertical lines of the
shield do not extend above this shield.
Other forgery in which the top part of the 'F' of 'Franco'
extends too far to the left. The 'G' is quite different from a
genuine stamp. Also the background pattern is not similar to a
genuine stamp (for example to the top right part of the left
'7'). I've seen this forgery with a cancel consisting of parallel
lines.
This forgery has some background lines through the 'a' of 'Marke'
and several letter of the words 'Sieben Grote'. I've seen an
improved version without these lines. The 'G' of 'Grote' does not
have a top serif. I've been told that this forgery was sold by
Fournier.
Forgery with 'b' of 'Sieben closed and the lines in the upper
right corner different from the genuine stamps. I've only seen it
with a Bremen box cancel.
A Sperati forgery, reproduced from a
genuine stamp with missing right upper part of the 't' of
'Grote'. Some very small white spurs can be found at the right of
the 'a' of 'Franco' and to the top left of the 'n' of 'Sieben'.
Sperati also made 'proofs' of this forgery on a minisheet with a
single stamp with the text 'REPRODUCTION INTERDITE' and the
signature of Sperati added.
A Peter Winter forgery made in the 1980's (it also exists on
forged letters). Click here for more
Bremen forgeries made by Peter Winter.
The imperforated stamps are of a different type
than the perforated stamps.
The Claghorn site says:
Original is lithographed on stone, in yellow-green, moss green
and bluish-green, on soft paper.
1. The upper right circle consists of two concentric circles.
2. The shield containing the word "BREMEN" is joined to
the center piece. There is a break in the line under the
"B" which curves up and joins the B.
Distinguishing characteristic #3: dot in the ornament at the left
hand side.
3. There is a dot in the ornament (just above the ellipse) at the
left but no such dot in the ornament at the right.
4. The outline on the second border ornament on the right from
the top, is thickened.
5. There is a dot on the left and the right in the lower part of
the central oval.
6. There are shade lines above the 5 but these are faint on type
1.
7. The end stroke of the "R" of "BREMEN" is
lengthened.
Forgeries made by the same forger; the "gr" of
"Sgr" is too high, the top part of the "g" is
almost touching the line above it. The ornaments above both
"V"s are different from the genuine stamps. I've also
seen this forgery with a "BREMEN" box cancel.
Forgeries, the "S" of "Sgr" is deformed at
the bottom and placed too high up. There are other differences in
the design, ornaments, key, lettering etc. I've also seen this
forgery cancelled with 4 parallel lines (vaguely similar to the
cancels of Lubeck).
Forgery with no dot in the upper left ornament. The left hand
side of the key appears to be pointed. I've also seen this
forgery in a darker green shade and imperforate. These are most
likely Bredemeyer forgeries.
(In this forgery, the "5" and "Sgr." are
quite different)
Block of four uncancelled Sperati forgeries, Reproductions 'B',
'C', 'D' and 'E'.
These Sperati forgeries are very difficult to distinguish from genuine stamps. Only the left bottom stamp is quite easy to spot: there is a large blotch of green ink covering the second pearl seen from above at the right hand side and just above the third pearl from above another blotch can be seen.
Sperati forgeries; I've been told that
the above stamps were made by Sperati, I have no further
information. Sperati used the cancel 'BREMEN 4 7 * 6-7' among
other cancels, such as 'BREMEN' in a box with several dates '18 8
* 6-7', '23 6 * 6-7', '28 10 * 5-6' '8 9 * 5-5', '22 9 * 5-6',
'23 10 * 5-6', '18 3 * 5-' (partial cancel), '19 11 * 5' (partial
cancel), '15 4 * 6-7', '26 5 * 6-7', '7 4 * 6-7', '4 7 * 6-7',
'14 8 * 6-7', '30 4 * 7 (partial cancel) and 'FRANCO' in a
straight line.
Sperati reproduction 'A' with 'BREMEN Bahnhof.' cancel in a box.
Reproduction 'A' can be recognized by the small breaks in the
line above the first 'E' of 'BREMEN'. The center left pearl has
an additional dot in it. The cancel was also forged by Sperati.
Other forgeries:
A rather crude forgery, the key handle is different from the
genuine stamps. It has a simple cross in it.
A very primitive forgery of the 5 sgr in the wrong colour, blue:
Forgery in wrong colour blue instead of green. The design of this
forgery is identical to the image given in "The illustrated
catalogue of postage stamps" by J.E.Gray (1870, page 11, see
second image). A similar image appears in the catalogue of Placido Ramon de Torres "Album
Illustrado para Sellos de Correo" of 1879 on page 28
(information passed to me thanks to Gerhard Lang, 2016). In the
Catalogue Descriptif des Timbres-Poste crees de 1840 a 1870 by
Arthur Maury, a similar illlustration is given on page 21.
Another forgery in black color. This one has the "N"
inverted as well.
The forger Francois Fournier also made forgeries of the stamps of Bremen. The following forged cancels were used by him:
Fournier's forged cancels, reduced sizes
"BREMEN 5 8 5-6" in a double circle
"ST.P.A. BREMEN 29 7" in a double circle
"BREMEN-BAHNF. 8 4 67 11-12 V" in a single circle
"BREMERHAVEN 7 ?" in a double circle
"BREMEN 20 6 * 3-4" in a rectangle
"BREMEN 20 10 * 7-6" in a rectangle
Possible Fournier forgery with "BREMEN 5 8 5-6" cancel
If anybody has pictures of these forgeries, please contact me!
A nice website on Bremen can be found on: http://people.freenet.de/jfeldhusen/Bremenmarken.htm (in German).
