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These REVENUE overprints were never issued for use (although some have been found postally used). The stamps above were cancelled to give the appearance of actual use (i.e. it is a fake cancel). Each of these stamps had about 30,000 copies made.
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This stamp on the far left is from a different collection, but has the exact same cancel, date, little overlap, only in black ink as the ones above. The three stamps on the right are either cancel to orders, fake cancels, or examples of actually used unissued Revenue stamps. (Please click on the photos to enlarge).
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A recent auction item where you can see the pattern of fake cancellations used on these full sheets of Spiro forgeries.
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Bisect. They did rarely occur, but this one is suspicious. Upsidedown postmark, where is the rest of the postage (would anyone really clip the item from a full envelope), and this probably doesn't make up part of an actual rate.
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Color and cancelation variation in a crude 6d forgery example.
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Full sheet of a Spiro 1/2 d forgery.
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Forgery with wrong bust and wrong color. Fake cancel.
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Three Pence forgery. This example has another identifier on it: the short vertical orange lines in the margins of the upper and lower right corners. These appear on many of the forgeries, and I assume were to square up the printing and perforations.
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