The St. Vincent "1 Penny Red" stamp is often a source of confusion for many collectors. Row 1 of the image above shows Scott (Stanley Gibbons) #2 (SG#1), 5 (SG#5), 43 (SG#48) and 44 (SG#48a). November 12, 2006 addition: the left stamp on row 3 above shows the elusive Scott #11 (SG#10). The color is normally identical to #1, #2 or #5, however, the picture was taken under office lighting and not via a scan, hence the appearance here is different. The stamp shown did have a BPA certificate and permission was granted from the present owner, Crown Colony Stamps, to use the image. The right stamp is also a Scott #11 (SG#10) but came from a Spink auction catalog image (from the May 3-14, 2008 Sovereign sale). Note: the stamps in rows 1 and 2 are from my own collection. Several easy ways to tell them apart:
If you believe you that you have a #11, I would highly recommend getting it certified; in the last 10 years, I have already run across 2 of them... |
Additional scans of St. Vincent Fakes & Forgeries can be found at Bill Claghorn's "Comparative Philatelic Forgeries" website at: http://www.geocities.com/claghorn1p/StVincent/index.htm . I have sent him scans of most of the known St. Vincent forgeries and he has listed them on his site.
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