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Fake stamps from Russian period
Forged
postmarks
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Some people had
acces to the General Postoffice's stock of old postmarks ... and made use of
this ... perfect copies of 2-Ring ÅBO postmark on old Ringstamps or a Postal
Stationary covers like this should make one suspiscious.
anong several
other postmark to be aware of is the bilingual HALILA shown below
you can find a
list
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Here what seems
to be Mourning stamp on a 2k Wrapper with additional franking of 2 * 1k
Ring-stamps sent from Halila 29.VI.00 to Hotel in Warszawa district in Poland.
Earliest known
date of used mourning stamp is 7th August 1900 ....
Date in postmark
that ties Mourning stamp to the wrapper is not readable only first figure is "
- " this leads to conclude "something is rotten in the State of Denmark"
(Shakespeare quote).
note the 2
postmarks cancelling the stamps are blurred - very normal due to contens of the
wrapper - where the last postmark on the Mourning stamp is quite sharp
sad; but no doubt
: the Mourning stamp is attached to the wrapper afterwards to make the item more
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