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Zurich forgeries, part 1

The forger Fournier is known to have made 3 different types of forgeries of the 4 r value and also 3 different forgeries of the 6 r value.

Fournier forgeries, examples:

Other possible Fournier forgeries, the first forgery has a 'FAUX' overprint:


Images obtained from Augusto Bulgarelli  


Two forgeries taken from a Fournier Album.


Two possible Fournier forgeries, the 'L' of 'Local' is placed too far to the left.

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Some forgeries with a violet 'FACSIMILE' or 'Facsimile' overprint:


These forgeries are possibly made by the forger Champion


A forgery with a red 'Facsimile' overprint. This is actually a cut out from a 'Stamp on a stamp' produced by the chocolate manufacturer Tobler. The inscription around this cut out read: "Old and new postage stamps Zurich Canton post 1843 TOBLER Swiss Milk Chocolate, No 675 - Serie 57 - No 673-684'.

Some dangerous forgeries:


(Forgery of the 4 r type 1


(Forgeries of the 6 r type 1, type 2 and type 3)


4 r forgery with a space between "Loc" and "al".

 

Sperati forgeries:

Sperati made forgeries all the 5 types of the 4 rp and all 5 types of the 6 rp (produced somewhere between 1930 and 1939).

Sperati forgery, obtained thanks to Richard Frajola's website
Sperati forgery of type 1 of the 4 r value


Sperati forgeries of type 2 of the 4 r value. There is a weakness in the left outer frame line besides the third ornament counted from the top down.


Sperati forgery of type 3 of the 4 r value

Image obtained from a Sotheby auction
Sperati forgery of type 4 of the 4 r value.


Sperati forgery of type 5 of the 4 r value


Sperati forgery of type 1 of the 6 r value. There is a break in the upper frame line above the 'RI' of 'ZURICH'. The left hand side of the '6' has several breaks in it.

Image obtained from a Sotheby auction
Sperati forgeries of type 2 of the 6 r value.


Sperati forgery of type 3 of the 6 r value.


Sperati forgery of type 4 of the 6 r value. The upper frameline is bent in this forgery.


Sperati forgeries of type 5 of the 6 r value.

 


(Some modern Peter Winter forgery)

Peter Winter made forgeries in the late 20th century. I posess a 4 r Winter forgery with the '18' in the left lower corner and '43' in the right lower corner (it resembles a proof, apparantly). I also posess a forgery of the 6 r value made by Winter, the white margins are very large (too large I think). These two forgeries do not look very convincing (they look too modern).


(Other Winter forgeries)

I have my doubts about the following stamps:

4 black and 6 black, with typical cancel, forgeries?


A Menke-Huber postcard with replicas of Geneva, Zurich, Vaud and Basel. The firm Henry Heller also issued the same cards.


A Menke-Huber postcard with replicas of Geneva, Zurich and Switzerland.


Possible cuts from these Menke-Huber postcards


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