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Return To Catalogue - French colonies, postage due stamps - French colonies, postage due stamps, Fournier forgeries - France overview - French colonies - France Postage Due Stamps - France Postage Due Stamps, 1881 forgeries - France Postage Due Stamps, 1881 Fournier forgeries
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Presumably genuine stamps
The stamp forger Venturini is known to have made forgeries of the French postage due stamps (and also the French colonies), see "Philatelic forgers, their lives and works" by V.E.Tyler.
Forgery of the 1 c with wrong inscription "CENTIMES".
Also some other forgeries made by the same forger. I've noticed
that there is always a small break in the right frameline halfway
up. In the 50 c of this forgery type, the top of the
"5" is too close to the "P".
A block of four 4 c of these forgeries.
A forgery of the 1 c value with inscription "CENTIMES"
instead of "CENTIME". I've seen this and other values
of this forgery type for the French colonies. The other values
are quite deceptive, but in my opinion, there is always a small
break in the right frameline about halfway up. Also, there are
some vertical lines missing on the right hand side of the left
bottom ornament (just below the value). In the 5 c, the top of
the "5" is different from a genuine stamp. In the 10 c,
the "1" is placed slightly too far to the right. They
are cancelled with either an unreadable towncancel
("TOULOUSE"?) or a small blur triangle. The perforation
appears correct to me (especially in the corners, where most
other forgeries are not correct). There appears to be too much
white space around the stamps, they are often (very) badly
centered.
Left: forgery with missing lines. Right, genuine stamp
More of these forgeries.
