Saturday, May 12, 2012

2 shilling brown block fake

I have this 2 shilling brown block in my possession. It doesn't look right. Closer examination showed that the types were arranged as


1 2
3 3    
whereas they should be
1 2
3 4


The top left hand stamp is perf line 12 and the other 3 are perf 12.76 comb. In addition one is on Cowan paper and three are on De La Rue paper. And the 4 postmarks are all different. These 4 single stamps have at some time in the past been joined together! A reassembled block. Something to watch out for! They are now singles again :-).
4 single stamps stuck together. Note how the bottom 2 are both type 3!

There is a Georgetown 166, another 1 something, what looks like a registered mark and then a circular datestamp.

This scan shows how the perforations have been glued back together, despite the bottom left hand stamp being a different perforation!


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