Fake North Borneo Postcards
Postcard 1
Another junk being offered in the internet. A postcard with monkeys and a stamp depicting another ape - what's more impressive than that? I have no idea as to when this postcard is produced but it seems that this type of colourful postcards are all forgeries. But the immitation is really bad that to refer to it as a "forgery" seems to give some credit to it!
Postcard 2
This postcard appeared in one of the internet auction sites and offered for €10 from a seller in France. Four "North Borneo" stamps with the oval of bars postmark are glued on each corner of the postcard. Apparently the postmarks do not appear on the postcard, not suprisingly because the postmarks are forged and probably printed at the same time as the stamps. The stamps look very coarse, lack of details in the design and awfully poor colour. Suprisingly, the picture of this postcard also appears in Proud's Postal History of North Borneo but without any description (page 152)!
Postcard 3
This is another postcard that appeared in ebay and ended on 29 Jan 2010. One forged stamp was used and pasted on the lower left corner of the postcard. Again, the postmark appears to suddenly vanish beyond the stamp surface. If you compare this 2 cent stamp to the one on the top postcard, you'll notice that they are actually identical! The Position of the postmark, the angle etc are all identical, which means that they are printed by the same individual. This particular postcard was offered for $49.99 from a seller in Netherlands.
