Forgeries of these stamps were made for packet trade. Both the originals and forgeries are lithographed but forgeries are more crudely re-produced. Forgeries exist both in perforated and imperforate. Below is side-by-side comparison of genuine (left) … [Read more...]
The 1922 Airmail Stamp Forgeries
Packet trade was very popular in the heyday of stamp collecting. To fulfill such rapidly growing demand in the early part of the 20th century, many stamps were forged including very common as well as rare stamps. Just because a genuine stamp is … [Read more...]
Forgeries flood eBay marketplace (II)
I just wanted to post another advisory warning about the increasing number of fake classic Lithuania stamps listings found on eBay. Many fake Second Vilnius issue stamps with fake Grodno and Wilna on-liner cancels (like the ones shown below) is … [Read more...]
Forgeries flood eBay marketplace
Update 2/3/2012 "filatelia_de_la_habana" changed his ebay id to “filateliadelahabana-punto-com” and continues selling his remaining fake Lithuania covers. Update 9/2/2011 "filatelia_habana" changed his ebay id to “filatelia_de_la_habana” and … [Read more...]
The 1932 Airmail Stamp Forgeries
Forgeries of these stamps were made for packet trade. Both the originals and forgeries are lithographed but forgeries are more crudely re-produced. Forgeries exist both in perforated and imperforate. There are a number of distinguishing … [Read more...]