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The Stamps of the Suez Canal Company 1868 - Eleventh Forgery
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Attribution: None

Designations: Boulad: 9   Barefoot: Not Classified

Denominations: 1, 5, 20 & 40 cents

Characteristics


Forgery 11 - 40 Cents

  1. No crosshatching between POSTES and DE-SUEZ.
  2. Rigging ropes to the foremast reach to the base of the bowsprit leaving no foredeck.
  3. There are pennants on all three masts.
  4. There are 14 rays round the left hand sunburst and 15 round the right; the central spot is very large. The rays of the left hand sunburst curve in a clockwise direction, those of the right hand one in an anticlockwise one.
  5. Both commas are curly. The right hand one is attached but not integral with the floral appendage, the left one is smaller and not attached.
  6. The smoke plume is very broad, slopes upward obscuring part of the middle section of the mizzenmast but does not reach the border of the oval.
  7. There are 4 passengers on the deck. One behind the foremast, two between the mizzenmast and its supporting rigging and one just aft of the smokestack.
  8. There is a border running round the stamp similar to the Fohl forgery.