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Hi Rich. Not an expert, but my best guess for those stamps would be...
Top one is an 8t (Trangka) stamp from 1914 (Scott No. 8)
Bottom right (red) is 2t from 1934 (Scott No. 17)
Bottom left (green) is 4t from 1934 (Scott No. 18)
I'm assuming by 'advice' you were asking for identification. If you are asking for deeper information, such as origin of cancellation, value on cover, potential markets, etc... then my apologies. My "not an expert" disclaimer becomes much more pertinent.
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There are a lot of forged or contrived Tibet covers out there. Generally, stamps are in random spots and angles on either side of a cover. So I would be suspicious of any that follow the more modern convention of placing the stamp neatly in the upper right.
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Maybe another "caution flag"
The stamps were issued 20 years apart but the address on both covers seem identical.
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Is that a stamp on the first cover or is it imprinted ?
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Is it me or is the address on both covers exactly the same, as if it were printed? It looks remarkably similar
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I agree with Jansimon - the mailing address on both covers are an exact match, manuscript-wise.
They look handstamped.
The only difference is the amount of inking.
Rubber inkstamp, possibly?
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Looking at the info at the stampforgeries.com website these might be relatively modern forgeries, produced by Lodha, an Indian stamp dealer around 1980.
Here you can see covers that are almost identical: https://stampforgeries.com/forged-stamps-of-tibet-covers/
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Thank you chaps for your input I have followed up on suggestions looking at web sites for forgeries and must confess I am still not able to decide if they are or not, the single shown on cover is almost a four margin stamp
anyway thanks again
Rich
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12:38:37pm
Hi Do we have an expert on Tibet who could offer some advice on these two fine covers,thank you
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04:23:58pm
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Hi Rich. Not an expert, but my best guess for those stamps would be...
Top one is an 8t (Trangka) stamp from 1914 (Scott No. 8)
Bottom right (red) is 2t from 1934 (Scott No. 17)
Bottom left (green) is 4t from 1934 (Scott No. 18)
I'm assuming by 'advice' you were asking for identification. If you are asking for deeper information, such as origin of cancellation, value on cover, potential markets, etc... then my apologies. My "not an expert" disclaimer becomes much more pertinent.
-Paolo
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10:08:30pm
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There are a lot of forged or contrived Tibet covers out there. Generally, stamps are in random spots and angles on either side of a cover. So I would be suspicious of any that follow the more modern convention of placing the stamp neatly in the upper right.
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Maybe another "caution flag"
The stamps were issued 20 years apart but the address on both covers seem identical.
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Is that a stamp on the first cover or is it imprinted ?
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Is it me or is the address on both covers exactly the same, as if it were printed? It looks remarkably similar
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I agree with Jansimon - the mailing address on both covers are an exact match, manuscript-wise.
They look handstamped.
The only difference is the amount of inking.
Rubber inkstamp, possibly?
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Looking at the info at the stampforgeries.com website these might be relatively modern forgeries, produced by Lodha, an Indian stamp dealer around 1980.
Here you can see covers that are almost identical: https://stampforgeries.com/forged-stamps-of-tibet-covers/
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03:38:40pm
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Thank you chaps for your input I have followed up on suggestions looking at web sites for forgeries and must confess I am still not able to decide if they are or not, the single shown on cover is almost a four margin stamp
anyway thanks again
Rich
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