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 Postage Stamps used in the German Marshall Islands Forged Jaluit Date Cancel on Military Cover by Dirk H.R. Spennemann |
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The loss of the colonies at the early stage of the war meant that the prices for cancelled colonial stamps increased dramatically during the war. This gave rise to a range of cancel forgeries. The item shown below is a military ('Feldpost') cover which laks the right hand section where the original stamp (if any) and date cancel would have been. A 20 Pfennig Germania stamp has been added at the left and cancelled with a forged Cancel designed similar to Cancel II. Without an inspection of the original it cannot be ascertained whether the entire covers may be a forgery as well or whether, as suspected, a genuine cover served as the basis. |
 Forged Jaluit Date Cancel (Detail) [Source: e-bay April 2001] |
 Forged Jaluit Date Cancel [Source: e-bay April 2001] |
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[Home Page] [Contents] [Cancels]Bibliographic citation for this documentSpennemann, Dirk H.R. (2002). Postage Stamps used in the German Marshall Islands. Cancels--Forged Jaluit Date Cancel on Military CoverURL: http:/marshall.csu.edu.au/Marshalls/html/Stamps/CancelPix/Forged09.html CONTACT: Dirk H.R. Spennemann, Institute of Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, P.O.Box 789, Albury NSW 2640, Australia. e-mail: dspennemann@csu.edu.au |
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