Channel Islands fakes and forgeries

The occupation period (1940-45) has had its stamps forged. It also had various bogus items created.

Mixed franking with British and German stamps are bogus, since old British stamps were not accepted for mail outside of either island. Covers and cards exist with handstamps indicating carriage by U-boat and torpedo boat; these are also bogus.

Guernsey
All values of the arms issue have been forged. The genuine have ink spots/specks inside the leopard tails at various points; forgeries have no spots. Genuine have a line connecting the nose (just a short line) to its left eye; forgeries have at least one leopard missing that connecting line.  File:Guernsey occ half.jpg|Genuine ½d value. It comes in a number of shades. File:Guernsey occup half d forgery.jpg|Forged ½d value. 

Jersey
The 1940 swastika overprints has been forged. They were never issued. Only four sets including two values of the Centenary issue exist plus a few singles. There were more but the balance was destroyed. Expertization is a must.

The arms set has also been forged. Genuine stamps have leopards with crescent/formed eyes; forgeries have dots for eyes. Forgeries have different size leopard heads.  File:Jersey swas forgery.jpg|2½d forgery. Watery ink unlike the genuine. Used examples are impossible. File:Jersey 4d swastika.jpg|4d with correct look; unknown if this is genuine or not. File:Jersey arms 1d.jpg|1d arms genuine. File:Jersey fake 2.jpg|1d forgery. 

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