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Non existing country. Some early stamp albums invite you to collect the stamps from the Kingdom of SEDANG. This country, however, never existed, and was invented by a crook who travelled through Europe as the King of Sedang and ordered these stamps during his stay in Paris. (SEDANG - ) | |
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Reprint or fake ? Reprint of a famous error : the inverted Jenny. Still two or three centuries to wait, and there will be no difference anymore with the really expensive ones. (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - ) | |
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Make your own error Stamp printed in two steps, only 400 copies exist with an inverted centre. It is very easy to make your own forgery : take two cheap normal stamps, carefully cut the blue centerpart of one of them, and glue it upside down on the other stamp ! (CANADA - 1959) | |
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Inverted Dendermonde Only 1 sheet of 25 stamps was misprinted, with an inverted centerpart. One of the most expensive Belgian stamps. This one of course is unfortunately a forgery, made out of two cheap normal stamps. (BELGIUM - 1920) | |
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Hitler forgery Forgery of a German Hitler-stamp performed by the Britisch secret services (GERMANY - ) | |
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Queen replaced by Stalin Forgery of an English stamp performed by the German secret services, where the Queen was replaced by Stalin. (UNITED KINGDOM - ) | |
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Wining Churchill. German postcard issued during the war, picturing a weeping Churchill. (GERMANY - ) | |
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Jewish crown Forgery of an English stamp performed by the German secret services. The Jewish David-star appears on top of the British crown. (UNITED KINGDOM - ) | |
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War forgery. Forgery of an English stamp performed by the German secret services. (UNITED KINGDOM - ) | |
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Cheap stamp If you think postage costs are too high, try this : take on old used 5F stamp of King Baudouin, with a pen write down the name of Prince Filip who will probably become the next King, change the 5F in 17F, and … ready for use. (BELGIUM - ) | |
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Valueless reprint Sometimes the Post Office helps you to cheat with stamps : a reprint without value, made by the Swedish Post Museum can easily be used as a stamp. Nobody will see the difference (SWEDEN - ) | |
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Tax vignette Everything that resembles a stamp, even a tobacco tax vignette issued by a State, can have a postal life : nobody will see the difference. (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - ) | |
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Fake stamp This could have been a nice idea : a stamp bearing all flags, currencies and languages of the countries belonging to the European Community, which could be used everywhere. Unfortunately it was never officially accepted ! (BELGIUM - ) | |
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Wrong map. Pink stamp issued to commemorate the visit of the Italian president to Peru. A wrong map was issued by the designer. To avoid diplomatic incidents, a new grey stamp with corrected map was issued. Some stamps, however, were already in circulation. This stamp, unfortunately for me, is a forgery. (ITALY - 1961) | |
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Do it yourself. Take a cartoon of a well known Belgian politician, glue it on en envelope : you have just made a free stamp ! (BELGIUM - 2011) | |
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Forgery Stamp with message FAUX below the bottom left corner, denoting forgery. At least a clear message. (GERMANY - 1951) | |
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No stamp neede anymore Try first with your picture near a real stamp with the picture of the Belgian King. If it is accepted, try only with your own picture, there is no reason why it should not work ! (BELGIUM - 2001) | |
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Forgery or reprint Forgery or reprint of the blue 2 pence Post Paid stamp of 1848. (MAURITIUS - 1848) | |
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Satiric stamps The Clinton - Lewinsky affair inspired the designers of these satiristic stamps. (UNKNOWN - ) | |
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Satiric stamps The Clinton - Lewinsky affair inspired the designers of these satiristic stamps. (UNKNOWN - ) | |
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Inverted Jenny Reprint by the US Post Office of the famous Inverted Jenny stamp. 95 years ago just one sheet of this stamp was sold before a customer identified the error. (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - 2013) | |
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Own design Cinderella based on an existing stamp, made by Gerald King. (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - 1934) | |
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