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Return To Catalogue - Great Britain, Queen Victoria, Large sizes - Great Britain, Queen Victoria, forgeries of the 5 Pound issue - Great Britain Overview
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A 1 Pound stamp with "SPECIMEN" overprint. A forged
"LIVERPOOL" cancel is applied on top of the word
"SPECIMEN".
I have seen imperforate souvenir sheets (?) with the 1 Pound and 5 Pounds stamps on it, with very large borders (about the size of the stamp itself), at the bottom the year the stamp was issued is indicated in very large letters. I don't know who issued these sheets, but they have been issued in large quantities. Example of such a sheet:
1 pound brown facsimile sheet, note the small dot on the top
right hand side of the upper left corner "C". I've seen
these minisheets with the "1884" cut off, pretending to
be an imperforate stamp.
Crude forgery:
(Forgery of the 5 Sh stamp)
The above forgery is very crude (compare the face of the Queen with a genuine stamp).
Other crude forgery of the 10 Sh blue value.
Other forgery:
Forgery of the 10 Sh stamp with imitated watermark 'Anchor'; the
perforation is wrong. This forgery is probably of modern origin.
I've seen other copies (all with corner letters 'GAAG' offered as
facsimiles). In my view, the horizontal background lines behind
the Queen's head are too coarse. Next to it a 1 Pound forgery,
also with too coarse lines in the background, presumably from the
same source.
The same 10 sh forgery, now printed in a minisheet with the
perforations sunk in the paper.
Another forgery of the 10 Sh, the Queen's eye is unshaded. It
does have a clear 'Anchor' watermark.
I'v been told that this is a Paris forgery, I have no further
information.
(Rather primitive forgery of the 1 Pound brown stamp)
A forgery of the 1 Pound brown with the head of the Queen
'slanting forward' and the back of the head touching the circle.
I've also seen it with a square 'HANLEY C MR 21 94' cancel and
uncancelled. The 1 Pound green also exists in this forgery type.
The corner letters are always 'CBBC'. It is often found with this
"TORQUAY H DE 1...." partial cancel. I have also seen a
5 Pound Queen Victoria forgery with this cancel, see: Great Britain, Queen Victoria, forgeries of
the 5 Pound issue
This forgery of the 1 Pound King Edward VII stamp was made by the
same forger I presume.
Imperforate 'reprint' of the 1 Pound value.
The forger Peter Winter has made forgeries of the 1 Pound brown, 1 Pound green and 5 Pounds orange Queen Victoria stamps. He also offers a forgery of the 5 Pounds telegraph Queen Victoria stamp. Images can be found in the 'House of Stamps Edition 88' catalogue. There, they are cancelled on pieces of paper with the cancels "REGISTERED A2 3 AP LOMBARD ST." in an ellipse, "LUDLOW MY 9 1894" curved text cancel, "HONITON NO 29 18.." and "1" numeral cancel in a lozenge surrounded by lines. He also offers the 5 Pounds stamp on letter. see also: Great Britain, Queen Victoria, forgeries of the 5 Pound issue
