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MAURITIUS 1847 Forgeries and Reprints

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Reprints:

Reprints were made in 1912 with the original plates, the paper is different from the original stamps. Some of them have the word 'reprint' on the black. See also http://www.stampsmauritius.com/PostOfficeForgeries.htm for more details, examples:

Forgeries:

I have seen many forgeries in the following desings; the 'G' of 'POSTAGE' has a very long tail and the 'A' of this same word is very broad:

I have also seen these forgeries in many fancyfull colours, examples:

(reduced sizes)

(Other primitive forgery)

The following stamps are all forgeries:

Rather bad quality forgeries, 2 p blue and 2 p red

Photographic forgeries of the 1 p and 2 p

(overprinted Fac-Simile)

('Faksimile 1986, apparently made in Germany, inscription 'DIE BLAUE MAURITIUS')

(Zoom-in of this 'Faksimile')

Some Peter Winter forgeries (made somewhere in the 1980's) on letter:

(Other forgeries made by Peter Winter)

Another modern 'reproduction':

(Zoom-in of the stamps on the above reproduction)

I've been told that the above reproduction was made by Prophila (50000 pieces seem to have been made). Apparently a photo was used as can clearly be seen from a zoom-in of the stamps (click on any of the two above stamps to see more details). Also the word 'reprint' was added in the design.

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