Knowledge / Cancellation Kinds / Machine Postmark Cancellations / Fakes

Fake Machine Postmark: genuine postage stamp cancelled with deceitful bogus machine postmark or with faked machine postmark

Genuine Machine Postmark: authentic machine postmark with no additional forgery

Forgery With Machine Postmark: deceit-ful reprint of a postage stamp, all parts are bogus (design print, perforation, machine postmark)

Fake Machine Postmark: genuine postage stamp cancelled with deceitful bogus mach-ine postmark

Misused Machine Postmark: genuine postage stamp cancelled deceitful bogus cancelled with a genuine machine postmark (e.g. after the franking validity expired)

Fake Machine Postmark Colour: postage stamp with genuine machine postmark with deceitful changed machine postmark colour

Forged Machine Postmark Date: genuine machine postmark deceitful bogus not the current date but a different date was set (predating or backdating)

Supplemented Machine Post-mark: postage stamp with genuine machine postmark with deceitful supplemented parts

Supplemented Damaged Machine Post-mark: postage stamp with genuine machine postmark with deceitful supplemented lost parts

Toned Down Machine Postmark Colour: postage stamp with genuine machine post-mark with deceitful toned down strong colour

Forgery With Genuine Machine Post-mark: fraudulent imitation of a postage stamp that was cancelled with a real mach-ine postmark (e.g. counterfeit to the detri-ment of the post office)