ST VINCENT 1899 5s green and blue forgery, SG75 Tanganyika stamps showing the prominent pantograph variety

showing the prominent pantograph variety 'Thin U in RUPEES'

Accompanied with a British Philatelic Association certificate of authenticity (2010)

000 of $1 overprinted

First official perforated issue

Madagascar 1886 4½d rose

ST VINCENT 1899 5s green and blue forgery, SG75 Tanganyika stamps showing the prominent pantograph varietySt Vincent 1899 5s green and blue forgery, SG75. A clever typographed forgery from the 'Ceylon' school (which anticipated the method of Sperati), on bleached out paper with genuine perforations, watermark and (inappropriate !) postmark, 'used' with part '(COLOM)BO' duplex cancel. A couple of tone spots evident but still a fine example for this rare forgery. Giovanni (Jean) de Sperati (14 October 1884 28 April 1957) was an Italian stamp forger. Even