30sen forgeries - new botas

MAEDA / GENUINE

WADA / GENUINE

WADA/GENUINE

    

2 new bota types are fake cancels .

album art ...

album art ...

45sen red - duplex forgery

rarely seen with bota

50sen red ... new forgery

1880 cover to Ribe DK ...

Nagasaki (Japan) to Ribe (Denmark) in 1880.

the 1872 30sen grey was withdrawn from use, yet applied to foreign mail 5 years after IJPO started its foreign mail service.   prior to 1875, a double-envelope system assured delivery to FM dept, then outbound overseas with treaty port stamps - USA, GB France ...

Florian Eichhorn issued the BPP certificate

MAEDA 45 sen /w OP ...

this is the first woodblock position of the 45sen plate .    this series is prone to weak numerals, likely due to sanding of the register block or the ink paste applied ...    compare to the M2 50sen below, which show a greater range of both shades and clarity of print.

the series appeared on K-series tourist sheets (casey-mono17)  ... but without OP ...

I discovered items /w OP in 2012.

red sanko 45sen ...

these are scarce ...and show 2 shades produced by maeda

japan concordance ...

a useful list for collectors ...

crossroads in red ...

unusual find ... on yahoo.jp

45sen sumiten forgery ...

the forgery is L item, genuine on R ...  likely a photolitho .  note frame breaks, and errors in oval frame.  the color is wrong.

this a rare sumiten fake ...

50sen forgery ... misperf

this forgery of 50 sen is unique.

note double-perforation on R

album art ...

poor design corners and 14 petal kiku

corner designs poor, oval too wide

17 petal kiku

publishers improvised designs, lacking true copies

2 sen koban /w kiban

this is a scarce koban ... coarse cotton paper /w kiban cancel -
i-ka 1 Wakayama (eichhorn)

MAEDA 50sen M2 /w nijumaru ...

maeda kihei screened from woodblock

normally the 50 is shaded more to L

this is better print 

5 sen brown ... fake or genuine

a rather crude design /w many breaks and lack of detail

3 strike cancels

comments ?

2 sen rose ... fake or genuine

the frame lines and background are irregular.   a partial tonbo marks appears in SWC.

any comments ?

5sen brown /w signature ..WADA.

5sen brown - signature

as my study advances, I have found more "duplex" cancels on WADA imitations ...  the more common appear on the m3 45 and 50sen series ...   recently, the m3 3sen 4sen and 15sen have shown a bota cancel, with the normal double circle form ...

all point to a second screening of indicia ...

2003 Endo-Koseki study on cancels ...

this is a signifigant collection that all japan collectors should appreciate ... it is available online.
I am surprised the JPS did not decide to edit and produce a monograph on the subject.

the chart below, details the number of cancels reviewed by JPS 2008 handbook groups...

the lower numbers reflect the early period of dragon and cherry blossoms; to roman letter foreign mail.

signifigant to specialised collections are the number of imitative cancels in each group.   the city "letter" cancels are complex as many types appeared, as well as many imitative cancels.

generally, all FM cancels were reproduced, and are dangerously close to genuine...  in each case, the value must be authenticated against a genuine unused copy.   the imitations below show fancy cancels that predate the koban period ... 1876-1899

this occurence and others points to outsourcing of serigraph work to subcontractors ...  maeda would offer paper and screens to assistants for production orders ...  not being expert philatelists, they quite often juxtaposed the incorrect cancel screen to the sheet ...

the study is online via the blog link :"the kobans stamps of japan"

note : group 215 denshin offers the least imitaions of koban era.

a new 5sen sheet discovered ...

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a new 5sen sheet discovered offers again 25 new positions ... I am appending these to my spiro study ....

historically, little has been written to describe these woodblock koban sheets ... analysis of the 15 spiro koban sheets has revealed some interesting patterns ... I have compiled results with images and rationale. it is also a collectors guide: pdf album pages for each value and anotated catalog of 340 positions...


to enjoy the full experience of CD, be sure to download Picasa3 ... to view the image library.   some positions remain unallocated ... and I am always looking for new ones !    registered users receive free upgrades ...  anyone who sends a signifigant number of spiro imitations can trade for the study - otherwise.