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Genuine 1899 POSTAGE POSTAGE with carmine value tablet
STAMPS
GENUINE Smeets forgery ‐ whole design forged on genuine paper POSTAGE with forged green value tablet
FROM POSTAGE
MADE Lucien Smeets used a similar technique to Sperati’s in bleaching out the design from a genuine stamp and substituting another Thus the paper, watermark, perforation and obliteration are genuine but all or part of the printed design is forged
–FAKES
SMEETS
LUCIEN Genuine 1888 & POSTAGE REVENUE with green value tablet
October 2020
Virtual Stampex ‐ Genuine stamp on coloured paper from which the design could be bleached out to create fakes
