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España - Espagne - Spanien - Spanje
Return To Catalogue - Queen Isabella 1850-1859 - Spain 1853-54 arms issue - Queen Isabella 1860-1865 - Queen Isabella 1866-1868 - 1879 King Alfonso XII - Inscription 'Comunicaciones' 1870-1873 - Inscription 'Comunicaciones' 1874-1889 - 1900-1920 issues - Civil War issues - War tax, Barcelona, Franchise, Postal Stationery, official stamps - Carlist post - Fiscal and telegraph Stamps - Cancels on first issues - Melilla (Morocco) bogus issues
Cabo Juby - Cuba - Fernando Poo - Mariana Islands - Philippines - Porto Rico - Spanish Guinea - Spanish Morocco - Spanish Sahara (Ifni) - Spanish Westindies
Note: on my website many of the pictures can not be seen! They are of course present in the cd's;
contact me if you want to purchase them: 
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Many of the remainders of the early stamps of Spain (1854-1870) were sold to dealers after they were cancelled with three thick horizontal bars. They are of lesser value than genuine used stamps.
5 Mils green 10 Mils brown 2 c grey (1872) 5 c green (1872)
(reduced size)
1/4 c blue 1/4 c green 1/4 c green (other crown)
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vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon | *** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare | ||
| Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
| 1/4 c blue | ** | *** | 1872, forgeries seem to exist! |
| 1/4 c green | c | c | 1876 |
| 1/4 c green (other crown) | ** | ** | 1873 |
There are many postal forgeries of the early issues of Spain. The Spanish authorities were forced to issue a new series of stamps almost every year because of this. Besides postal forgeries, many philatelic forgeries exist. I posess an old catalogue of 1896 ('Gebruder Senf's Illustrierter Postwerzeichen Katalog') in which a warning against excellent forgeries is already given: "Vor den grossartig gelungenen Fälschungen aller selteneren marken Spaniens (zu Sammelzwecken) kann nicht genug gewarnt werden" (translation from German: Not enough warnings can be given against the exceedingly well executed forgeries of all rare Spanish stamps, for collecting purposes).
I'm not a specialist in this field, but I have added pictures whenever I know the stamp is a forgery and tried to add as much information as possible. Among numerous forgers, the most dangerous are Sperati forgeries and Segui forgeries.
Literature:
'La Obra de Jean de Sperati: España y Colonias Españolas' (in Spanish, I haven't seen this book myself).
In this catalogue:
Spain 1850 Queen Isabella forgeries
Spain 1851 Queen Isabella forgeries
Spain 1852-59 Queen Isabella forgeries
Spain 1860 Queen Isabella forgeries
A nice site on the stamps of Spain with its forgeries can be found at http://www.graus.com. However, it is in Spanish, and it is quite difficult to get to the actual information. The easiest way to get in is explained on www.filatelia.fi/forglinks/index.html: "Path to the descriptions: click on the arrowed button at top, then put the cursor over M-E-N in the lower left hand margin, and select España y Colonias from the menu that opens automatically. Finally select among the "épocas". You may also like to check Graus' forgery information in the Peligros (under M-E-N and Noticias). Click on the words above "Clicar". There is also plenty of information in his 'Peligros' (I have no idea what this means in Spanish).
Arana = spider (name of a cancel used in Spain)
Auténtico = genuine
Baeza = name of a cancel used in Spain
Dentado = perforated
Estampilla = stamp
Falso = forgery
Matasellos = cancel
No hay estampillas = no stamps available
Parilla = name of a cancel used in Spain
Rueda de carreta = wheel (name of a cancel used in Spain)
Sello = stamp
Usado = used
Stamps - Briefmarken - Timbres-Poste - Postzegels - Francobolli - Estampillas
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