Began selling “art supplements”•High quality, steel engraved facsimiles•No intention to deceive collectors –took measures to identify their work•Engraved markings into stamp designs•Dealers sometimes covered or scratched away identifiers to use facsimiles as forgeries
a colour-illustrated album page I acquired from france. it offers short sets to the 1888 1yen value koban ... it is a belle-epoch period piece ... on inspection all the images are art-repros or facsimiles ... a page from a senf -torres-schaubek album : (it exists as english edition also )
the copyists or graphic artists of the time often shared their work internationally, and assisted global distribution ... stamp packets were in demand. ultimately, the UPU became involved in arresting the products appeal amongst collectors ... the repros of withdrawn issues were deemed "forgery" under some national legal schemes. the artists vowed their art production was imitative ... non-postal forgeries and hence, not subject to prosecution. laws varied from 1 nation to another.
certainly, fournier of helvetia and maeda of japan - both had expert knowledge of postal history.
5sen brown is imperf, and of same design as the 5sen blue sheet image.
the kanji are simpler than maeda design. TORRES
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