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Return To Catalogue - USA Confederate States - Confederate States Bogus Locals - locals Athens - Greenville - locals Memphis - Nashville - locals New Orleans - Victoria and miscellaneous - United States
Note: on my website many of the
pictures can not be seen! They are of course present in the catalogue;
contact me if you want to purchase it.
Local issues in the Confederate States were issued in (1861): Athens, Baton Rouge, Beaumont, Bridgeville, Charleston, Danville, Emory, Fredericksburg, Galatin, Gollad, Gonzales, Greenville, Greenwood, Grove Hill, Halletsville, Helena, Independence, Jetersville, Kingston, Knoxville, Lenoir, Livingston, Lynchburg, Macon, Marion, Memphis, Mobile, Mt. Lebanon, Nashville, New Orleans, New Smyrna, Petersburg, Pittsylvania Court House, Pleasant Shade, Rheatown, Salem, Spartanburg, Tellico Plains, Uniontown and Victoria. Information on forgeries and bogus issues can be found on http://www.rfrajola.com/csa/csaindex.htm or at http://members.home.com/kr.baker/csa/fakes/ (Kevin Baker) or at http://www.jlkstamps.com/webpage/index1.htm
Genuine, reduced size, image obtained from a Siegel auction.
Belonged to the Ferrari and Hind
collection.
10 c black
Image obtained from a Christies auction catalogue.
5 c black
I presume this is a forgery.
(Sorry, no picture available yet)
10 c black on blue
5 c black on yellow 10 c black on grey
(Genuine on envelope, reduced size, image obtained from a Siegel
auction)
10 c black on yellow
(Sorry, no picture available yet)
5 c black
(Sorry, no picture available yet)
5 c black 5 c red
This issue is probably a bogus issue. Reprints also exist (on white paper, originals have blue paper).
5 c red 10 c green
Two reprints of the 5 c value.
Reprints exists: 5 c red or brown on white or blue. On the later issues and the reprints the star above the "E" of "KNOXVILLE" has a scratch. I have seen forgeries in wrong colours: 5 c blue 10 c blue and 10 c red. The 10 c stamps below are forgeries. In both the 5 c and 10 c there should be a comma after "CHARLTON" and after "KNOXVILLE" and not a dot. The letters "XV" of "KNOXVILLE" should be joined at the top. The word "PAID" should be at the same level as the "H" of "C.H.". Images of forgeries:
Note that the '1' is printed upside down in these forgeries.
A reprint made by the stamp forger Petrie.
Envelope in the following design exist in the colours: 5 c blue, 5 c blue on orange, 10 c red and 10 c red on orange.
(Genuine, reduced size, image obtained from a Siegel auction)
(Genuine, image obtained from a Rumsey auction)
(Taylor forgeries)
I know of two types of forgeries, one was made by Petrie and one by Taylor. The differences become clair if we compare the positioning of the letters. In the Taylor forgeries, the word "FIVE CENTS" is too large. Also the "V" of "KNOXVILLE" should be exactly below the "S" of "POSTAGE". In both the Taylor and the Petrie forgeries, the "V" of "KNOXVILLE" is below the "O" of "POSTAGE". By the way, if anybody has a picture of a Petrie forgery, please contact me! A picture of a Petrie forgery can also be found at: http://www.jlkstamps.com/fakes/page1.htm.
Might be a Petrie forgery, but I'm not certain.
(Genuine on envelope, reduced size, image obtained from a Siegel
auction)
5 c blue and orange
(Forgeries in the colours orange and violet)
I've seen other forgeries.
Letter with two Limestone Springs stamps (image obtained from a
Siegel auction)
Stamps with the only inscription '5'. These stamps are extremely rare. Some letters with two stamps exist. Apparently the stamps were printed on either green or white paper. Cancels were never used on these stamps.
(Genuine on envelope, reduced size, image obtained from a Siegel
auction)
5 c blue
Forgeries exist, example:
(Forgery)
The forgery has no rays between the "AI" of "PAID" and the star. The word "CENTS" is written in thinner letters and the "S" of this word is very weird. I've seen this forgery in lilac color and also in green.
Inscription "PAID R.H.CLASS P.M."
Genuine
5 c blue
I've also seen this forgery in the colors green and red
In forgeries Types I and II, the bottom of the "P" of "PAID" touches the lozenge below it, in the genuine stamps it does not. One of the forgeries, the corner ornaments are more or less as in the genuine stamp, the other forgery has the ornaments different (see picture above, note especially the bottom right and upper right corner).
In yet another type of forgery (Type III), the corner ornaments do not resemble at all the genuine stamps. I've only seen it in the color orange.
Forgery, type III, reduced size
I have also seen a bogus design with "5" in an ellipse, "PAID" written straight on top and "RH CLASS PM" written straight at the bottom.
Bogus issue, reduced size
Postal stationery:
(Postal stationery from Lynchburg, image obtained from a Siegel
auction)
Even these postal stationeries were forged, example:
(Forgery)
Stamps with inscription 'LYNCHBURG VA PAID' are bogus issues, for more information click here.
"Lynchburg VA Paid"
Images obtained from a Cherrystone and a Siegel auction.
Images obtained from a Siegel auction; period variety (two times)
and comma variety.
(Image obtained from a Schuyler Rumsey auction)
2 c green on green
5 c black on blue ('POST OFFICE')
5 c black on yellow (line border)
5 c black on yellow (ornamental border)
The 'POST OFFICE' stamp exists in two types; one with a ',' (comma variety) behind 'OFFICE' and one with a '.' (period variety).
Forgeries of Macon stamps exist, examples:
Highly dubious item.
(Forgery!)
(Bogus issue for Macon)
(reduced size, bogus issue of 10 c green?)
I have been told that the next forgery was made by S.Allan Taylor:
(Taylor forgery)
Very deceptive forgeries of the 5 c 'POST OFFICE' stamps were
made by the stamp forger James A.Petrie,
which even deceived expert commitees. See: The Macon Petrie Fakes
by Francis J.Crown Jr. in The Confederate Philatelist (Nov-Dec
2004, p. 239), also available online at
http://www.csalliance.org/Acrobat/Crown%20Macon%20Petri%20Fakes.PDF.
According to this article, the line borders are slightly thicker
and irregular in the Petrie forgeries. The word 'CENTS' is
printed in a heavier font than in the Petrie forgeries. Petrie
made forgeries of both the comma and period varieties. Even
covers exist with the Petrie forgeries. This forgery is very rare
(only about 18 have been discovered) and were also sold to famous
collectors, such as Ferrari. In fact,
the pair of stamps on letter illustrated in the Ferrari auction
Nr. IV (item 24) are Petrie forgeries (Die Ferrary Auktionen
reprinted by J.Erhardt Stuttgart 1987). Another cover exists with
two Petrie forgeries. Both covers were addressed to R.J.Lowry
& Co in Atlanta and both were cancelled 'MACON SEP 1'.
Petrie also made a bogus 10 c variety in the same design as the
'POST OFFICE' 5 c stamps. Only three of such fakes have ever been
found. One is on a letter, addressed to the same R.J.Lowry in
Atlanta again.
Another dangerous forgery is also described in the above document of F.J.Crown; it has the lower left corner not 'straight' and a higher 'P' of 'POST'. The whole word 'POST OFFICE' is slightly curved downwards.
(Madison Court House provisionals with the 'CNETS' error at the
right hand side)
I have not much information on this confederate issue. Most catalogues don't contain these stamps, since it is not quite clear if these are really postage stamps or just labels (or even bogus). The 3 c exist with misprint '3 CNETS' (only one copy known). The fact that the stamp forger James E.Petrie was somehow involved in their discovery doesn't help either in certifying their authenticity. An interesting article by Patricia A.Kaufmann 'The Madison Florida Postmaster Provisionals' can be found at: http://www.webuystamps.com/madison.htm, where she tries to prove that these stamps are indeed genuine. The stamps should have been issued by the postmaster of Madision, Samuel J.Perry. Only one cover exists, it has a 'PAID' in a box cancel. There is also an envelope known of this town (only one copy existing, 5 c black on yellow in a different design, with 'PAID 5' in the center).
Forgeries (made by Taylor) of the
Madison Court House stamps. In my opinion, the value '2' and '3'
is too far away from the upper ornamental row. The color (blue)
of both stamps and the value of the first stamp (2 c) are bogus.
(genuine, images obtained thanks to a Siegel auction)
Image obtained from a Cherrystone auction.
10 c Ex-Ferrary collection.
5 c black 10 c black (only 2 unused stamps have survived)
5 c bogus issue for Marion, and a 1 c black in the same design;
I've also seen the values 3 c, 15 and 20 c (all in black). There
are even different types of these bogus issues.