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Return To Catalogue - French colonies, postage due stamps, Fournier forgeries, first type, part 1 - French colonies, postage due stamps, Fournier forgeries, second set - French colonies, postage due stamps - French colonies, postage due stamps, 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
Fournier forgeries:
There appear to be two types of Fournier forgeries (or possibly even more?). See also France Fournier forgeries or France Postage Due Stamps, 1881 Fournier forgeries. Here the easiest type to recognize is shown. It is not clear if Fournier actually made these forgeries, or merely sold them (since they appear with cancels that cannot be found in the Fournier Album).
The 30 c, 60 c and 2 F Fournier forgeries (however with cancels
that do not appear in the Fournier Album from New Caledonia).
Next to it a highly suspicious 60 c stamp (the Benin cancel looks
too nice to be true), most likely a forgery (note that both 60 c
values have an extension at the top right hand side and breaks in
the frameline above the upper left "RF"). In view of
the larger margins of these stamps, they cannot have been cut
from the sheet containing all values. The 30 c forgery does not
appear to be exactly the same as the 30 c black Fournier forgery,
there is an extension to the upper right corner.
Two not aligned 5 c forgeries, note the dot on the "I"
of "PERCEVOIR". And some other forgeries of the same
type in blue as well as black color, also with overprints.
The Fournier Type I forgeries can be
distinguished by (besides being quite badly printed):
1 c: The frameline above the upper left "RF" is
irregular. There is a break in the frameline left to the upper
left "RF".
There is a small black line in the white line above the
"R" of "CHIFFRE" (I'm not sure if this is
always the case)
2 c: There are two breaks in the upper frameline above
"CH".
3 c: The right bottom corner has a downwards extension.
4 c: There is a tiny dot in front of the "4".
5 c: In my view, there is a tiny scratch outside the design to
the right of the last "S" of the right
"POSTES" (but not always?). The left hand side leg of
the second "R" in "PERCEVOIR" is partly
missing. In some specimens, there is a dot on top of the
"I" of "PERCEVOIR"
10 c: The first "R" of "PERCEVOIR" has a
white space in the left leg.
15 c: The bottom right corner is rather smudged (I don't know if
this is always the case).
20 c: There is a tiny dot in the upper part of the banderole next
to the "S" of "CENTIMES".
30 c: A small dot appears just above the lower curl of the
"3". Genuine 30 c stamp never have an accent above the
"A".
40 c: There is a dot between the "V" and "O"
of "PERCEVOIR" (not always?). In my opinion, there is a
break in the black line under the "CH".
60 c: There is a tiny dot on top of the first "R" of
"PERCEVOIR".
1 F: There is a dot behind the second "R" of
"PERCEVOIR" (exists in black and brown)
2 F: The bottom of the "S" of "FRANCS" is
badly done (exists in black and brown). In my view, the first
"S" of the left "POSTES" has a missing bottom
curl. The first "F" of "CHIFFRE" has a
scratch in the upper left corner (not always very well visible).
5 F: There is a tiny dot to the left of the first "R"
of "PERCEVOIR" and another tiny dot outside the stamp
next to the upper right corner corner ornament (exists in black
and brown). I've noticed that the upper part of the upper left
square with "RF" is always badly done.
1 F red forgery (very clear dot below the last "R" of
"PERCEVOIR") with a "SAIGON" cancel that does
not seem to appear in the Fournier Album. Also a strip of 5 c
forgeries which are not aligned.
