U.S. and Worldwide Stamps
March 24-25, 2010
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1197 MEXICO 1872 Postal Fraud and "Anotado" overprints, single frame (16 pages) exhibit collection which demonstrates validation and district names, postal and philatelic forgeries, both perf. and imperf., 150 used and unused stamps, plus four covers, values to 100c, with multiples, genuine pmks, recovered and re-validated stamps, legitimate usages, returned and recovered stamps, genuine stamps with forged "Anotado" overprints, neatly written, mostly fine-v.f. No specific government directive has yet been found to completely explain the background of these stamps. There exists a reference to post office circular of May 3, 1872 referring to "faked stamps in the City (Mexico) either in the type or the overprints of the places where they were sold" (possibly the postal employees themselves were producing stamps and selling them to large mailers). Since the perpetrators of this scam used original plates, ink and type for some of the overprints, fraudulent stamps were almost impossible to distinguish and they circulated fr  OCatalog #71/80 | Price Realized $2,100.00 |
