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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, green or lilac paper (it also exists
on white 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 a slanting
one.
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)
Perhaps another Behrmann forgery of the 1 Sgr red stamp.
Forgeries of the 1/3 value, also some 1 Silb.Gr. forgeries made
by the same forger..
Forgeries of the 3 Silb.Gr. value
The head of the horse is almost touching the ellipse in this
forgery of the 1/3 Sgr. The "G" of
"BRAUNSCHWEIG" is rather strange. Here it appears with
a bogus parallel lines cancel, but I have also seen it without
cancel.
Forgeries of the 3 Sgr, the cancel appears to have been printed
with the stamp.
Forgeries of the 3 Sgr red, the "3" are too narrow. The
upper label almost touches the left hand frameline.
Sheetlet of forgeries with some of them a "HELMSTEDT
29/8" forged cancel. I've seen this cancel on other
suspicious stamps (on letter).
Very primitive forgeries with a 5-lines cancel.
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?
