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Return To Catalogue - Lubeck, postal stationery, locals and railway stamps - Lubeck forgeries of the 1859 issue, part 1 - Lubeck forgeries of the 1859 issue, part 2 - Other German States - Germany
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Lubeck is one of the German States. A free city of the Hansa at the Baltic Sea in Northern Germany. It issued stamps from 1859 to 1868, it used the stamps of the North German Confederation afterwards. In 1859 three post offices existed in Lubeck: that of Lubeck itself, a Thurn and Taxis one and a Danish post office.
1/2 Schilling lilac 1 Schilling yellow 2 Schilling brown 2 1/2 Schilling red 4 Schilling green
(Error, inscription 'ZWEI EIN HALB': 2 1/2 instead of 'ZWEI',
Image reproduced with permission from: http://www.sandafayre.com
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For the specialist: there are 2 issues of this stamp: one has a watermark small flowers (often very hard to see), for all values. The second issue of 1861 (only the 1/2 Sch and 1 Sch) doesn't have any watermark due to the fact that the watermarked paper was no longer available. There exists an erroneous impression of the first issue: 2 1/2 Schilling brown ('Zwei ein halb', see image above), it appears twice in a sheet of 200 stamps of the 2 Sch value. Stamps were requested by the authorities to be placed in the upper left corner of the letters (up to 1864, when it was decided to place the stamp on the right hand side).
Value of the stamps |
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vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon |
*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare |
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Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
With watermark flowers |
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1/2 sch | RRR | RRR | To be used on local letters or local printed matter. 40,000 stamps issued |
1 sch | RRR | RRR | For letters to Travemunde and nearby cities of
Mecklenburg-Schwerin. 20,000 stamps issued |
2 sch | ** | RR | For letters to Hamburg and Bergedorf. 138,600 stamps issued |
2 1/2 sch | *** | RRR | For letters to cities at a larger distance in
Mecklenburg-Schwerin and for letters to Mecklenburg-Strelitz. 50,000 stamps issued |
4 sch | *** | RR | For letters to all other cities in the
Austrian-German Postal Union. 149,900 stamps issued |
No watermark (1861) | |||
1/2 sch | ** | RRR | 110,000 stamps issued |
1 sch | *** | RRR | 49,900 stamps issued |
Typical cancels, (images reproduced with permission from: http://www.sandafayre.com ):
(Line cancel and towncancel in a double circle)
Genuine misprint of the 2 sch with control cancel 'STADT POST AMT
LUBECK' which was applied to the margin of the stamp sheet.
Normal stamp and misprint with control cancel
All the remainders of these stamps are ungummed
(stamps were only gummed when they were required). The following
quantities were sold in 1868 to Ch. Pelletreau (Paris); source:
'The Stamps of the German States' by B.W.H.Poole:
1/2 Sch; 72,500 stamps (unwatermarked paper)
1 Sch; 29,500 stamps (unwatermarked paper)
2 Sch; 79,500 stamps
2 1/2 Sch; 26,500 stamps
4 Sch; 107,500 stamps
Click here for reprints and forgeries (part 1) or here (part 2) of this issue.
1/2 Schilling green 1 Schilling orange 2 Schilling red 2 1/2 Schilling blue 4 Schilling brown
According to 'The Stamps of the German States' by B.W.H.Poole, the Lubeck authorities were warned from London that the previous issue had been forged. They then decided to issue this set of stamps which was made by the Prussian Printing Establishement in Berlin. They were introduced on 1st July 1863. The previous set was still valid for use upto the end of 1863.
Value of the stamps |
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vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon |
*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare |
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Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
1/2 sch | *** | *** | 120,000 stamps issued |
1 sch | R | R | colour can go from orange to almost black 80,000 stamps issued |
2 sch | *** | R | 120,000 stamps issued |
2 1/2 sch | *** | RR | 50,000 stamps issued |
4 sch | *** | R | 80,000 stamps issued |
The following quantities were sold in 1868 to Ch. Pelletreau
(Paris); source: 'The Stamps of the German States' by
B.W.H.Poole:
1/2 Sch; 23,968 stamps
1 Sch; 7,228 stamps
2 Sch; 50,828 stamps
2 1/2 Sch; 28,951 stamps
4 Sch; 17,851 stamps
Imperforate reprints with no embossed center exist (1872). They were made on the order of a certain Mr. Kirchner for a war charity (Kriegsinvaliden). Only 250 of such reprints were made for each value. Don't confuse these reprints with cuts from postal stationary. Could the next stamps be such reprints?
Reprints of all values
There should be two points below the 'C' of 'LUBECK' in the genuine stamps.
I've been told that this cancel is forged, I have no further
information. Genuine 'L' cancels exist.
Most likely forgeries, note that the lettering is very badly
done. They appear to have a "ZEITUNGS..."
cancel?
I've only seen the 2 1/2 Sch of this forgery type, the eagle is
very fat.
A forgery with wrong cancel "LUBECR BAHNHOP" (should
have been "LUBECK BAHNHOF"). Also note that the small
patterns of the ellipes are slightly different from the genuine
stamps. These forgeries were most likely made by the maker of
similar forgeries with the same fake cancel of the previous issue
(Ongelia?).
Modern reprints were made in 1978 by Gehringer in Kaiserslautern (Germany) in mini-sheets of four stamps. Even the embossing has been carefully done. I've seen reprints of all values. The whole sheet has a wavy like watermark pattern. The inscription at the bottom of the sheet is: 'Neudruck 1978' and 'Gehringer'. Example:
(Reprint sheet made by Gehringer of the 1/2 Sch value, reduced
size)
Backside of this sheet, the 'reprints' have inscription 'Neudruck
1978' printed on the backside
1 1/4 Schilling brown
This stamp became necessary after the war with Denmark in 1864 to send letters to Schleswig and Holstein (previously the Danish post office had delivered those letters). They were printed in Lubeck by the printer Rahtgens (other sources say Rathgens).
Value of the stamps |
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vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon |
*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare |
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Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
1 1/4 sch | *** | *** | Printed in sheets of 100 stamps. 104,200 stamps printed. |
A quantity of 30,652 of remainders was sold in 1868 to Ch. Pelletreau (Paris); source: 'The Stamps of the German States' by B.W.H.Poole.
Forgeries:
Forgeries exist of the above stamps. For example Spiro has made a forgery with a single dot between the necks of the eagle (genuine stamps have two dots), the tail at some distance of the bottom of the oval and the 'B' of 'LUBECK' better done than the original (source 'The Spud Papers').
Fournier also made forgeries of this stamp (fist choice forgeries, he offers two varieties, brown and dark brown for 2 Swiss Francs in his 1914 pricelist, the distinghuishing characteristics of this forgery are given in the Serrane guide). This forgery is very deceptive. The left large '1' has a shorter upper left and lower left hand side.
Fournier forgery (reduced size)
Forgeries from a Fournier Album.
Modern reprints were made in 1978 by Gehringer in Kaiserslautern (Germany) in mini-sheets of four stamps. The whole sheet has a wavy like watermark pattern. The inscription at the bottom of the sheet is: 'Neudruck 1978' and 'Gehringer'. Example:
1 1/2 Schilling lilac
This stamp was issued due to an increase in the rate of letters to Schleswig Holstein from 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 sch. It could also be used on letters to Hamburg and Bergedorf, for which the rate was reduced from 2 Sch to 1 1/2 Sch in 1865 (source: 'The Stamps of the German States' by B.W.H.Poole).
Value of the stamps |
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vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon |
*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare |
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Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
1 1/2 sch | *** | R | 40,200 stamps printed. |
A quantity of 97,071 of remainders was sold in 1868 to Ch. Pelletreau (Paris); source: 'The Stamps of the German States' by B.W.H.Poole.
Imperforate reprints with no embossed center exist (1872). They were made on the order of a certain Mr. Kirchner for a war charity (Kriegsinvaliden). Only 250 of such reprints were made.
Reprint with no embossed center and no perforation, on the
backside the word 'NEUDRUCK' is printed in red.
Other modern reprints with embossing were made in 1978 by Gehringer in Kaiserslautern (Germany) in mini-sheets of four stamps. The whole sheet has a wavy like watermark pattern. The inscription at the bottom of the sheet is: 'Neudruck 1978' and 'Gehringer'. Example: