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a200mm @ sojo88 Fake 1d Auckland Exhibition 1913​

a200mm @ sojo88 Fake 1d Auckland Exhibition 1913​

A while back I acquired the 1d Auckland Exhibition stamp which is part of the  1913 Auckland Exhibition issue. Immediately after seeing it I suspected that it was a fake as even on the photo the overprint looked odd.  Sure enough after putting a picture of the stamp through some filters the fake overprint shows up.  Here I’m going to provide a comparison with the 6d example, which I believe is legitimate.  I used retroreveal to scan the images.  Some fake may be worth more than the original, but I doubt this is the case here.  The 1d is out in abundance and I strongly suspect that there are more forgeries out there.  Hope there are some better ones than mine.

Original images taken with a decent Sony camera

Zooming in just a bit already highlights the imperfections of the overprint.  It appears the overprint was added some time after the stamp was cancelled.  It’s also possible that the cancel was chemically reduced.  The font appears ‘blobby’ and most of the letters don’t have nice straight lines.  On the other hand the 6ds font looks much better although a bit faded.

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