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It's true, the whole set of overprints exists inverted, but isn't listed anywhere. I have a few including F35. The normal overprints are already regarded as "speculative", apparently even more so the inverts. That's why not even Cockrill listed them…
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Apparently the covers weren't Ex-Cockrill after all. Perhaps that was the "error in the listings" and the reason for ending them.
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Travis, I just sent Henry an email to see if he knows anything about this. For the latecomers who don't know what we are talking about: Liberia 1840 lettersheet to US from Governor Thomas Buchanan in Monrovia Liberia 1835 inward missionary cover f…
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That was quick... Did someone make him an offer he couldn't refuse?
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Well, the 1914 issue was handstamped, so in a sense every copy is one of a kind ;-)
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It isn't very likely that the whole sets exist both mint and CTO. But, who knows ... ? Perhaps together we can find out what inverts do exist in which condition? I will go ahead and list what I have below. If anyone has to add something, I would as…
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Travis, are you sure there is an "i" before the "a" of the fake cancels?
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Because no catalog mentions this I would like to add that the overprint on three of the four stamps in portrait format normally reads upwards, while for the 5c official (Scott O130) downward is normal.
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A forgery is a reproduction of an original item produced with the specific purpose of being sold as an original. Fournier never did that. He was honest about what he was selling, he offered his copies as facsimiles, i.e. faithful reproductions of or…
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I must admit that none of my forgeries is marked FAUX on the back - I just checked them. The ones with FAUX on the front are all facsimiles made by Fournier, and overprinted after his death by the Union Philatelique de Genève to prevent misuse:
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Albert, I wrote an article on this subject for the LPS Journal, but even after more than two years it still hasn't been published, so I might just as well make it available for download here: Scott #64 with “INLAND” obliterated
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Albert, here is a used #128 perf. 12.5 from my collection, also CP21, canceled August 6, 1917. And this is the #64 with CP18 I was talking about. Finally, another example of CP18 used as a favor cancel, on a block of six of O59 (the block has f…
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Albert, the postmark used on the provisionals of 1914 and on your #128 if quite common. I have a #64 canceled with it and several others. I have no doubt that all of them were done in Liberia, but the "killing" of the 1914 issue was probably a join…
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Mik, I should have added that the note is dated from December 1912, three years after the stamps were issued. I assume Hayman placed several orders like this over the years (with the early ones probably being even bigger), and the fact that he plac…
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In his Liberia series booklet No. 25, Cockrill quotes from a note Henry Hayman sent to Perkins Bacon regarding an order of stamps of the 1909 definitives "all to be cancelled with the usual obliterations" and to be handed to him personally: 30000 ea…
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Albert is right, the early CTOs were all done in England (according to Cockrill). Although I have no proof I am convinced the first stamps that were canceled to order in Liberia were the ones printed in Berlin. Not by Liberian officials, but by empl…
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Albert, no. When I said "current catalog" I meant the regular Scott catalog.
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OK, I have sent you a link where you can download the scan. Please note that the notation of the paper varieties of the 1923 issue seems to have changed over time. In the 1999 catalog the plain numbers referred to the cheapest variety, and the "a" …
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Hello Mik, I have the 1999 edition of the Scott classic specialized catalog. The Liberia section is only 7 pages long. I'll send you scans. Manfred.
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Travis, I didn't even realize your reply could be seen as defensive. Must be one of these cultural differences between Americans and Germans I've heard so much about ;-) The Varaschini collection held a #128 with a violet specimen overprint (page …
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Hello Travis, I have no doubt that it's genuine. I just wanted to clarify that it isn't a specimen meant to be sent to the UPU (like Albert's #64 with perforated "SPECIMEN"). Although I don't have one, UPU specimens of #128 should exist in small qu…
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Travis, is this a British PO specimen? Cockrill said his specimen (presumably an UPU specimen) had a violet overprint. Also, the overprint on your stamp looks like the ones on the scans of the 1921 pictorials Marty sent me.
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Albert, that's very interesting, a mustard block of six with CP26 Harper postmarks from 1969. If I had to guess I would say someone took the stamps to Liberia and had them favor canceled. No matter what the status of the mustard shade is - rejected…
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The mustard variety also seems to be rich in freak errors. To me, it feels more like genuine printer's waste than material from a forger's lab.
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Here's a scan of the light and dark shades of green compared with the light and dark shades of "mustard" (I think the color was supposed to look golden). In reality the differences are a bit more pronounced than the scan suggests. Looking at them no…
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First of all, I agree with Cockrill that the mustard stamp isn't a forgery. I have a complete sheet canceled to order, and in my opinion the CTO postmark is genuine. The sheet looks like the ones currently offered as part of a larger lot on eBay: ht…
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The info about the date actually comes from the original Perkins Bacon engraving books, see Cockrill's Series Booklet 25, p. 66. And, I have always wondered the same thing: why would Liberia have waited more than a year before putting the stamps up …
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Travis, the Liberian philatelic community is indeed very quiet, compared to other countries, almost as if it doesn't exist at all. It is frustrating to think what could be accomplished, how many questions (first days of issue, postal rates etc.) co…
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Albert, I had a discussion about this with Travis Searls back in 2011, and he sent me five scans of a wholesale price list for 1915 he found in his local stamp club library: the front page, two ads and the Liberia section (the whole booklet had …
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Probably not what you are looking for, but I have some of the regular stamps with an unusual (late) usage: #218 and #224 on small 1940+ covers to stamp dealer Paul Sheridan, and 223a on a Jimmy Carter postcard sent 1978. I have only one stamp…