- irregular frame lines L top and bottom
- 1/4 corner cancel unseen before
- 1 thin on R
The Koban Study Group 小判
2019-10-11
IJP 1sen /w double frame lines
5rin imitations ... warning
Wada Katoro did not produce any ... and Maeda Kihei has been identified as designer of one position grey-black koban ... however, looking at the 25 position spiro sheets : 3 16-petal kiku sheets exist ... that I would class as troublesome to the collector ...
close examination of the kiku design , and comparison to the genuine is required ... on the left is a spiro-kiku; on the right a genuine-kiku design. in the imitations, normally a dot appears in the core ... also the petals are mishapen ...
note the variance in the oval frame designs ...
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THE SPIRO FORGERIES OF JAPANESE STAMPS By Harold E. M. Bradshaw and Varro E. Tyler, Jr. Philatelic forgery, the production of counterfeit po...
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early litho 15sen with wada cancel ex KB1 Kam igata was not the producer of litho facsimiles attributed to him, but merely the publisher. ... -
In Japan, Kotaro Wada was only supplier of copper-plate facsimiles... Maeda Kihei produced all litho-koban - including spiro group. origi...