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(29 April 2020) I have not been keeping tabs on the Parcel Post cancels after the QV-KE7 period but Ray Stanton and Roy Bond have kindly furnished me with scans of the strikes listed in the Ted Proud St. Vincent handbook and the recent PML update by Charles Freeland, Roy Bond, Russell Boylan covering the period 1899-1965. Roy confirms that the illustrated KGV 6d, 1/- on piece dated 25 JU 26 has an unrecorded “B” code and will be incorporated in his update within the BWISC Journal in due course.
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High priced postmarks on catalogued stamps will always attract the forger and it is no surprise that forged cancels exist in all shapes and sizes on GB used abroad stamps. Those wishing to benefit financially from their endeavours have cleaned manuscript cancelled REVENUE issues and applied forged cancels to make them look postally used. Apart from those two groups the village cancels for all of the British West Indies remain largely unscathed (and virus free!). If you look to Bermuda numerals on QV issues you will be hard pressed to find any forgeries as no catalogue value was ever applied to them. Bob Topaz, in the USA, however produced his rarity chart for Jamaica numerals back in 1967, and in 1981 added £ sterling premiums to all the known combinations. Some of the rarest of the Topaz combinations may not exist at all unless in forgery/fake form as one keen individual took a fancy to forging Jamaica numerals on what would appear to be almost exclusively OFFICIAL issues, many with bluish ink tinge. Whether this was a result of the Topaz pricing, or whether they were prepared to be included in the counts supplied by collectors to Topaz we will never know. I stumbled across these as they appeared in bulk in a Jamaica numeral collection auctioned in the UK which I recognised as belonging to an American collector with initials ABN, possibly a totally innocent party. Around about the same time, perhaps earlier or later, I purchased the Charles Winand collection of Jamaica numerals and noted that a few forgeries from the same stable had found their way onto his album pages. The fakes from the two collections were eventually merged and set aside, and now are presented for the first time. If genuine the group would have been worth a small fortune as most are listed as rare, very rare, extremely rare. For the time being these are held safe, and the illustrations now provided should help to act as a safeguard to collectors in the future.
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I have a reluctance to put certain items in for a Certificate as you are either stuck with a yes or a no! If you were going to forge this DOUBLE SURCHARGE you would think of perhaps chosing a better stamp! Obviously it has manuscript cleaned and SG state "Many used examples of the Postal Fiscal stamps have had pen cancellations removed before being used postally". St. Lucia joined the U.P.U. January 1st 1881 and the postal rate to other full member countries was 4d. However there appeared to be a need for higher values as 6d and 1/- denominations were produced. I cannot see any plate flaw on the basic stamp to position, and as multiples of this QV 6d postal fiscal do not exist, one assumes that every stamp will have different characteristics in the overprint. This stamp clearly has matching broken top to "S" in STAMP but it would if it was a forgery, and it would if it was genuine! What about the "A11" cancel, forgery or genuine? Your thoughts are welcomed.
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