Preview of Stamps Catalogue: VOLUME 1

HANOVER Cancels, Postal Stationery

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Cancels

On the first issues I have only seen a towncancel in a straight line (in blue or black) and a circular towncancel with date (in blue or black).

(Townname in a straight line and towncancel in a circle)

"BUNDE"

(Town name cancel "ESCHEDE")

"STADE" circular date cancel.

The most common cancels on the King George V issue are probably circular date cancels. I have seen them with two circles, the day and month written in the center and hour indication in the bottom part (no indication of the year). I've seen these cancels in blue or black.

Double circle towncancel "AURICH", "BERGE", "EMDEN", "HAGE", "HAMELN", "HARBURG" and "HIMMELPFORTEN"

Single circle towncancel "JORK" and "SCHAPEN"

"GEESTEMUNDE ZOLLVEREIN"

Stamp of Hanover used in Bremen:

I posess a stamp with a 'Hamburg' cancel, similar to the Bremen one above.

"HAMBURG" cancel.

A rectangular cancel:

Fournier forged cancels

The following cancels are taken from a Fournier Album of Philatelic Forgeries, Fournier was a forger in the early 20th century:

(Reduced sizes)

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Postal Stationery

1849 Manually printed 'Bestellgeld=frei'

Sorry, no image availalbe yet (RRR).

A reprint exists with a dot behind 'frei' and a with the length of the text much longer than in the original (see Ohrt's reprint book).

1850 Circular postmark with a posthorn and inscription 'BESTELLGELD FREI'

Reprint

Reprints are much more common than genuine envelopes. Some reprints have a black 'BESTELLGELD-FREI' circular cancel (originals always have a blue cancel).

1857-1863 King George V in an ellipse

Inscription on the left
  1 Ein Guter groschen green
  1 Ein Silb. Groschen red
  1 Ein Groschen red
  2 Zwei Silb. Groschen blue
  2 Zwei Groschen blue
  3 Drei Silb. Groschen yellow
  3 Drei Groschen yellow
  3 Drei Groschen brown

With inscription on the right (1861)
  1 Ein Groschen red
  2 Zwei Groschen blue
  3 Drei Groschen brown

Reprints exist made in 1863-1864. Some modern reprints were made for the Habria 85 stamp exhibition (blue and yellow impressions on a large sheet).

1858 Envelope with clover and horn, inscription 'BESTELLGELD FREI', so-called 'Kleeblatt'

Certified genuine

  (5 Pfg) green

Forgeries and (private) reprints exist. According to the reprint book of Ohrt, 400 whole envelopes were reprinted and sold to dealers in England and Belgium to be sold to stamp collectors. This was not enough and sheets with tete-beche impressions (thus no longer whole envelopes) were printed; 21,000 in total. Some reprints in black, green, blue and red were also made (200 reprints of each colour) pretending to be proofs. These last different coloured reprints were printed on pieces of paper measuring 42 to 44 mm.

Reprints of proofs in different colours, even impossible tete-beche pairs.

Possibly a private reprint with clearer centerlines in the leaves.

A Fohl forgery with overprint 'Falsch' (= forged in German), reduced size

The Serrane Guide mentions that Geneva forgeries exist (Fournier), cut into 3 x 3 cm squares, also with forged cancels.

In all the genuine ones I've seen the center of the upper leaf points towards the 'G', here it points towards 'GE'.

Another dubious item, the inscription is further away from the outer white circle. The outer green circle appears too thick.

In 'Philatelic Forgers, their Lives and Works' by V.E.Tyler, it is stated that the stamp forger Alwin Nieske ordered forgeries of the above clover leafs from the firm of Salm in Plauen from 1872 to 1874.

1861 Envelope with horse, inscription 'BESTELLGELD - FREI', so-called 'Pferd'

Genuine?

  (5 Pfg) green

Some reprints in black, green, blue and red were also made (100 reprints of each colour). These different coloured reprints were printed on pieces of paper measuring 42 to 44 mm.

Reprint and reprint in different colour (pretending to be a proof).

Forgeries and (private) reprints exist, I'm not sure if the above stamps are genuine.

A Fohl forgery with overprint 'Falsch' (= forged in German)

The mouth of the horse should be slightly open, but not as wide in the above forgery.