1941 BANJA LUKA, Forgeries

Recently, forgeries made with quality laser printing have appeared. Both, the basic stamp, as well as the overprint, are forged. Plain medium-sized office paper is used, and usually, there is no gum.  If you have such forgery in your hands, it is not dangerous because you can immediately see from the paper what it is about. But it is a much bigger problem if you see only the front image (e.g. on the online store) because the reproduction is pretty credible even under the scan of usual resolution. 

Genuine on the left, forgery on the right. At this resolution, the forgery seems quite credible.

Genuine on the left, forgery on the right. The high-resolution scan (4800 DPI) clearly shows the dot structure of the laser printer.

For other types of forgeries of the Banja Luka issue, see my article in Acta Philatelica Nova 2017.

1945 SPLIT, St.1 stationery from Hvar

Stationeries of type St.1 are very rare while those sent from the islands are even rarer. Only four such items are known...

1945 Split provisional issue, stationery of type St.1, sent from the island of Hvar (28.VI.45) to a military address of 9th Division of 4th Yugoslav Army (at that time located somewhere in Slovenia). Censor cancellation No. 2, Hvar. 

1941 NDH Nacionalization - Young Peter

Usage of Young King Peter stamps and stationery in April 1941 and beyond was very scarce. Even scarier was the use of nationalized Cyril & Metod stationery in the Independent State of Croatia...

1941 NDH Nationalisation, "Young King Peter" Cyril & Metod illustrated stationery, correctly franked with 1 Din, sent from Požega (3.V.1941) to Zagreb. Stationery was nationalized with the "Država Hrvatska" provisional rubber stamp.

1945 MOSTAR, Card with oblique inscription

Special commemorative cards were issued on the occasion of the International Labour Day in 1945 with a complete set of 20 Mostar Provisional Issue stamps affixed to five yellowish toned scallop-edged cardboard cards with five-pointed star and inscription "Mostar, 1. maja 1945" in red. Stamps are cancelled with "Mostar 9" 1.V.45 canceller in black.

The cards are made uniformly and quite accurately. However, there are few with oblique printed inscription. 

1945 Mostar provisional issue, commemorative card with oblique printed inscription. Only a few such pieces are known.

1945 MOSTAR, No. 8 with inverted overprint

Only 12 stamps of No. 8 50/6 Kn Dubrovnik exist with inverted overprint. This is due to the incorrect insertion of the pieces when repairing one incomplete sheet. The following overprint positions are known so far:

• 35 and 45 as part of a tête-bêche block of four
• 65, 66, 75, 76 in a block of four
• 57, 64 and 67 as individual stamps

So there are a total of nine known positions. We can conclude that the remaining three are located close to the known ones.

Positions of nine known inverted overprints. The remaining three are most probably located somewhere near the known ones.

1945 Mostar provisional issue, No. 8 50/6 Kn Dubrovnik, tête-bêche block of four from positions 34,35/44,45. Unique item. Ex Tiberio.

1945 MOSTAR, Article

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ACTA PHILATELICA NOVA 2019

Croatian philatelic almanac

Democratic Federal Yugoslavia

MOSTAR PROVISIONAL ISSUE 1945

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