Lot 72
Worldwide Oswald Schröder Forgery Collection. 61 items mounted on album pages and additional duplicates on stockpages, with identification descriptions of forgeries (R. Lowe) at times giving the position on the genuine sheets from which the forgeries where taken from; with over 30 different varieties many in full collotype sheets from one and three stamps, includes Columbia with New Granada 1861 issues, the 1862 issues and the Sorbre Porte (Postage Dues) 1865 25c & 1p values, states including Antioquia with 1867, 2½c & 5c values and Tolima 1870, 5c-10c values, Argentina Cordoba 5c issue and bogus 25c, 50c & 1p values in sheets of 3, Dominican Republic first issues on laid paper, selection o.g. Guadalajara provisionals including paper types, Philippines 1855 5c red, Finland 1845 10k red postal stationery design, the France 1871 40c postage due issue, Hanover 1863, 3pf green and one of his best works the Saxony 1850, 3pf brick red, Spain 1853 3c bronze and Wenden 1864, 2k sheet; a rare group of forgeries.Estimate $300 - 400.
Schröder was a partner in a printing establishment (Schröder & Naumann) in Leipig, Germany. By 1891, he had produced a number of excellent collotype forgeries of stamps of various countries. A listing of 56 different forgeries produced by him was published in 1891, although Schröder's identity was not revealed in the article. After his forgeries became notorious, Schröder fled Germany and lived for some years in Zurich, Switzerland.
Realized: $2,300