ST VINCENT 1899 5s green and blue forgery, SG75 Tanganyika stamps Los Angeles during 1990 rehearsals

Los Angeles during 1990 rehearsals for her Blonde Ambition tour

showing the prominent pantograph variety 'Thin U in RUPEES'

000 of $1 overprinted

The error was caused by the gold frame (and value) stopping at the base of the second stamp

This failing was identified in the first month of issue of the penny black and trials began to find a better combination of stamp and cancellation colours

ST VINCENT 1899 5s green and blue forgery, SG75 Tanganyika stamps Los Angeles during 1990 rehearsalsSt Vincent 1899 5s green and blue forgery, SG75. A clever typographed forgery from the 'Ceylon' school (which anticipated the method of Sperati), on bleached out paper with genuine perforations, watermark and (inappropriate !) postmark, 'used' with part '(COLOM)BO' duplex cancel. A couple of tone spots evident but still a fine example for this rare forgery. Giovanni (Jean) de Sperati (14 October 1884 28 April 1957) was an Italian stamp forger. Even