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Hi Mel,
It looks like a forgery to me.
The first full vertical bar in the top half of the shield is too close to the shield's inside frame.
As a result, the short bar to its left appears crammed in and is the wrong shape.
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Stanley Gibbons list the 20 cent blue error as being perf 14.
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Thanks nigelc. That was my way of thinking. It was almost perfectly centered and way to good to be real. I do not have any of the others to compare, so the info re the vertical bars gives me something else to consider in the future. The perfs were what really threw me.
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You're welcome Mel.
I see in Varro Tyler's Focus on Forgeries, good illustrations of a genuine 5 centavos stamp along with a (different) Spiro forgery of this which he says is by by far the commonest forgery.
I've also seen forged examples with five or seven vertical bars in the design so there seem to be a lot of different forgeries of this set out there!
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i have been collecting Guatemala since 1998 and have never seen one..real or fake, there is certainly not a space for it in my Guatemala album. I would take one of either.
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This is not a forgery, it is a regular issue from 1963.
From Stampworld:
The originals didn't have an inscription below (or such broad margins)
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Yes, it's like Steven says. Here the data with Scott Catalogue 2026
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I am pretty sure I answered my own question. However, the image shows what is supposed to be a Guatemala Scott #4b. 20 cent blue (error). The stamp perfs at 11 1/2. Guatemala Scott # 1-4 perf at 14 X 13 1/2. First clue!! But, the catalogue does not indicate the perf measurement for the 20 cent blue error. What am I missing?
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re: Guatemala Forgery ?
Hi Mel,
It looks like a forgery to me.
The first full vertical bar in the top half of the shield is too close to the shield's inside frame.
As a result, the short bar to its left appears crammed in and is the wrong shape.
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re: Guatemala Forgery ?
Stanley Gibbons list the 20 cent blue error as being perf 14.
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re: Guatemala Forgery ?
Thanks nigelc. That was my way of thinking. It was almost perfectly centered and way to good to be real. I do not have any of the others to compare, so the info re the vertical bars gives me something else to consider in the future. The perfs were what really threw me.
Thanks for the response
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re: Guatemala Forgery ?
You're welcome Mel.
I see in Varro Tyler's Focus on Forgeries, good illustrations of a genuine 5 centavos stamp along with a (different) Spiro forgery of this which he says is by by far the commonest forgery.
I've also seen forged examples with five or seven vertical bars in the design so there seem to be a lot of different forgeries of this set out there!
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re: Guatemala Forgery ?
i have been collecting Guatemala since 1998 and have never seen one..real or fake, there is certainly not a space for it in my Guatemala album. I would take one of either.
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re: Guatemala Forgery ?
This is not a forgery, it is a regular issue from 1963.
From Stampworld:
The originals didn't have an inscription below (or such broad margins)
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re: Guatemala Forgery ?
Yes, it's like Steven says. Here the data with Scott Catalogue 2026
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