Comments on: The 1932 Airmail Forgeries

By: Audrius Brazdeikis

Audrius Brazdeikis — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:54:39 +0000

Dear Maria,

Sorry to hear that you’ve found a fake airmail in your collection. There are plenty of fake Lithuania airmails in the marketplace. Fortunately, the replacement is quite inexpensive.

By: Maria Kanas

Maria Kanas — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 06:18:40 +0000

Quite a shock to the system, when I checked my Airmail issue, and found it fake.

By: Audrius Brazdeikis

Audrius Brazdeikis — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:18:15 +0000

Thanks Vitaly for posting addition information and the scan of old Linn’s issue. There are many stamps without visible grease watermark patterns. Therefore, not everybody easily can spot ” watermarks”. To an untrained eye many of these airmails look basically the same. Perhaps that is why we used to receive so many repeat questions about these stamps. Posting pictures here was useful and almost immediately flood of emails stopped.

By: Vitaly Geyfman

Vitaly Geyfman — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:51:54 +0000

This forgery was first described in 1998 Lynn’s Stamp News.
I always find it funny that people try to concentrate on tiny details of the overprint and miss the big picture.
The “watermarks” are drawn on the stamp. It is a non-watermarked paper! One can spot this from a mile away.
See the picture of the Lynn’s News cover in the FORUM section of this site.

By: Audrius Brazdeikis

Audrius Brazdeikis — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:21:16 +0000

Hi Michel,

It is always a good practice to write FAUX or FALSCH or FORGERY on the back of such stamps.

By: Michel Roy

Michel Roy — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:30:30 +0000

Hello Audrius

I have placed some of them on Delcampe. Here is the link

http://www.delcampe.fr/page/item/id,0115292356,language,F.html

I wonder if I should write FAUX on the back.

Michel

By: Audrius Brazdeikis

Audrius Brazdeikis — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:13:50 +0000

Hi Michel,

Sorry to hear about that. These airmail forgeries have become popular collecting objects among many collectors. I often see these stamps listed and sold on eBay and Delcampe. Why don’t you list your forgeries on eBay?

By: Michel Roy

Michel Roy — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:35:31 +0000

Hello Audrius

Thanks for your prompt answer. I bought quite a lot of them in a stamp shop in Paris, not on an auction site. The only thing I can do now is to use them as wallpaper.

Michel

By: Audrius Brazdeikis

Audrius Brazdeikis — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:27:13 +0000

Hi Michel,

Thanks for visiting our website. Complete airmail series of Mi 340-347 (Sc C55-C62) and Mi 348-355 (Sc C63-C70) both perforate and impeforate are forged. I will upload more scans when time permits.

By: Michel Roy

Michel Roy — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:55:32 +0000

Hello
Does it exist a forgery for the whole series, or just for the M344?