Counterfeit

Counterfeit. Any stamp or cover or cancellation created for the purposes of deception.

Counterfeit: Any philatelic material created as an imitation sold as genuine material.
Cover: An envelope or postal stationery.
Crash cover: a cover reclaimed from an accident.

Counterfeit: Any stamp, cancellation or cover created for deception or imitation, intended to be used as genuine. A counterfeit stamp is designed to deceive postal authorities.

Counterfeit - any stamp made expressly with the intent of defrauding a postal administration of revenue.
See also: fake, forgery
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Counterfeit: 1. A postage stamp or postal history item which has been forged, with the quality of the forgery ranging from the easily determinable crude types, to the sophisticated type requiring Expertizing procedures to determine genuinity.

Counterfeit
Literally, a coin that is not genuine. The term is applied to cast and struck counterfeits as well as issues with altered dates or added mintmarks.
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Counterfeit - an item, usually a replica of an existing stamp, made to defraud collectors. The term can also be applied to overprints, postmarks, etc.

counterfeit
A stamp, postmark, or cachet created in direct imitation of a genuine item and intended to deceive. It is a Federal offense to counterfeit any postal marking or postal issue. [Back to top]
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Counterfeits are collectable and fairly scarce, even though today's color photocopies, color scanning and printing make it easier than ever to try to create postal forgeries.

Counterfeit:
A precancel made, usually fraudulently, to imitate a legally issued and used device.
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The counterfeit inverted Jenny affixed to the absentee ballot envelope
On November 13, 2006, an elderly Sarasota, Florida man contacted SNN News 6, claiming to be the man who mailed the ballot.

Several counterfeit stamps of the British Guyana stamps resurfaced through the years.
5.) The New Brunswick stamp "Connell's Folly' stamps (1859) ...

Boston counterfeit: the US 2¢ stamp of the 1922 series, look for a large and out-of-proportion "S" in Washington, plus variations in the perforations.
Boston Hartford & Erie R.R.

I further agree not to sell, produce, or advertise counterfeit material in any form, in violation of any law.

Generally speaking, such counterfeiting as has been done has been directed toward swindling collectors. There are very few instances on record where stamps have been counterfeited to swindle governments.

Ironically, the Kansas-Nebraskas themselves have been counterfeited extensively in the years since their issue, not to defraud the Postal Service, but to cheat collectors.

These lines, which are meant to discourage counterfeiting, are actually the word "MAILPOSTE" repeated 14 times (seven per row).

As a group, stamp collectors are more informed about good and bad stamp design, printing quality, and counterfeit protection than the average Canadian, but we also are more informed on the history and traditions behind the postal issues as well.

Forgery: A completely fraudulent reproduction of a postage stamp. There are two general types of forgeries: those intended to defraud the postal authorities (see also Counterfeit), and those intended to defraud the collectors (see also Bogus).

process, since stamps are, in a sense, governmental securities or currency. It is true several large nations use other processes for economy or speed, but there is something in an engraved stamp which represents stability, and prevents counterfeiting.

See also: Stamp, Used, Philatelic, Catalog, Printing