Dear Bjorn,

Your remarks about the 1903 forgeries of Mi #65 surcharged need some comment:

Your so-called forgeries are original stamps! The overprints were done without any care and the cliches were of worst quality. The cliches differ strongly within a printing sheet. The pair below shows a known plate flaw on the right. I can prove that with a stamp showing quite the same flaw on a cover! The very few forgeries that I saw in the past are very crudely done. None of the items on your web-site is a forgery!

I also enclose a famous error (overprint on 10 St), only one sheet of 100 was done!

The following scans show the large variation in prints of this surcharge. According to T. Hitzler they are all original!

Main page