19 November 1934
Unaddressed covers, often with this "HOPITAL MARITIME / DE / L'ORATOIRE" imprint, with two complete British or complete French sets of the 1925 issue.
The coincidence in date and type of cancel with the Leralle covers (see Correspondences - Leralle) made me first think that these were made by Monsieur Leralle too for
his personal collection. But this was surely not the case. They are just covers with genuine stamps and cancel forgeries.
Type 87 forgery
PCH Type 87 INTERISLAND SERVICE forgery
But if you compare them with the handdrawn pictures of
page 288 du "catalogue des oblitérations des colonies françaises tome 1: "Les Possessions
du Pacifique" par B Sinais et G Venot 1989 éditions Bertrand Sinais, you can easily see
that the cancels were reproduced from this book. (Thanks to "SeSi" for finding the source of the
fakes and providing the scan of Bertrand Sinais' book!) (Klinger coll.)
Type 90 SINAIS
PCH Type 90 INTER-ISLAND image in the SINAIS book.
Type 87 SINAIS
PCH Type 87 INTERISLAND SERVICE image in the SINAIS book.
Type 90 forgery
PCH Type 90 INTER-ISLAND forgery
Type 87 forgery
PCH Type 87 INTERISLAND SERVICE forgery
These New Hebrides "Specimen" stamps with faked overprints were listed
at Ebay in 2001.
They are nothing else than products of fantasy. I'm quite sure that they will suface again some day.
SPECIMEN forgery
SPECIMEN forgery - fantasy stamp
SPECIMEN forgery
SPECIMEN forgery - fantasy stamp
SPECIMEN forgery
SPECIMEN forgery - fantasy stamp
SPECIMEN forgery
SPECIMEN forgery - fantasy stamp
SPECIMEN forgery
SPECIMEN forgery - fantasy stamp
These New Hebrides "France Libre" stamps with faked additional overprints
were listed in 2001 by the seller "atdinvest" at Ebay US. They are nothing else
than products of fantasy and are mere kindergarten stuff. But we cannot rule out
that some buyers will try to double-deal others with these fakes. Of course they
use only the 5c - 15c stamps as these are cheap and can be found everywhere.
(Sorry for the low quality of the pictures but I had to take them where I could
find them and means of improvement were limited - Roland)
Scrap !
Fantasy Scrap !
Scrap !
Fantasy Scrap !
These forged SPECIMEN overprints were listed by the sellers "atdinvest",
"unlimitedstamps" and "futete" at eBay in 2000. The seller "atdinvest" also listed at
Yahoo. Before November 2000, the eBay seller "cclan" also placed similar material on these sites.
We believe that these and other overprints listed with the above sellers were
manufactured specifically for sale on Ebay and Yahoo to unsuspecting
collectors who believe they are buying "classical forgeries" which do have
some collectability and commercial value. However, they were really buying
very poor modern manufactured imitations which are contravening various laws
in their manufacture and sale, and are worthless from a philatelic point of
view as well as valueless but might be offered again.
Scrap !
Fantasy Scrap !
September 2001: BEWARE!
The left stamp with the crippled 5 was offered on Ebay for about 350$ in September 2001
(the right two are genuine). Upon our massive protest the seller retracted the offer but we can not rule out the
possibility that he will try it again. This is quite a lot of money for a worthless
piece of paper. So please watch out!
5c fake
The 5c ovpt w/o CONDOMINIUM forgery at left - the other two are genuine.
More 5c ovpt w/o CONDOMINIUM fakes
Especially on the popular internet auction sites but sometimes at real auctions too faked 5c on 50c without CONDOMINIUM surface. Most are
easy to recognise. Here are some more examples. Very intelligent to fake a stamp cancelled 1910!
19 April 1975 (?)
Letter from Labour Department to Joint Court (only
partly shown). The cover seems to be genuine but the cancel is a fake. It is
PCH type 27AU, known only 17.-4.75-2 (a busy day!). Not seen very often: sender's
address on a Vila letter! (Klinger coll. thanks to Big Jim)
1975 cancel fake
1975 cancel fake
1975 cancel fake
1975 cancel fake
1975 cancel fake
1975 cancel fake
1977
Fakes of the 25 and 30 FNH British provisionals. They had been part of a complete set which was ok but these two I had in hand in 2000.
25 FNH fake
Fake of the 25 FNH British provisional.
30 FNH fake
Fake of the 30 FNH British provisional.
1977
Most likely a computer printer forgery: 20c on a 5d stamp.
20c on 5d fake
(new 7/2020)
Fake of a 20c on 5d stamp.
