Spain - The Unknown Forgers

 The usual suspects list is long, Spiro, Sperati, Fournier, Torres and even a relatively unknown very prolific forger Segui

90%+ of Spain forgeries are Postal Forgeries (Counterfeits) from a few dozen unknown forgers.

Thanks to the works of Francisco Graus, Enrique Bergua and others two rather unknowns have been identified but little is known of them - Bobes & Novella (apparently a restauranteur in Valencia)

Here are the samples I gathered, first from Bobes (who also made bogus color forgeries) & Novella (rather well made forgeries). Genuine on the left for comparison.

Bobes Forgeries 1851-1854

Including several Bogus color forgeries

1851

1852

1853

1854

Novella Forgeries

1851

1853

Peter Winter - Spain Forgeries 1851-53

 These are the Peter Winter Spain excellent forgeries from 1850-1853.

I have them compared to the original on the left where there are split images.

1850 Forgeries

1. Large break above the 5
2. Large top serif on the L
3. Typical white blotch
4. No bulge on the 8
Very large margins

Winter forgery pair

Most of the letters and numerals do not match
Heavy shading in the eyelid
Broken frame lines
Uneven background

1851 Forgeries

Winter Color error

Winter Block

1852 Forgeries

1 The ribbon has a thick section and long end
2 Large curve at the right of the nostril
3 The lines below the headband are short and heavy
4 The small DO is short

1 The ribbon has a thick section and long end
2 Large curve at the right of the nostril
3 The lines below the headband are short and heavy
4 The small DO is short
5 The cancel is fake and too thick

1 The ribbon has a thick section and long end
2 Large curve at the right of the nostril
3 The lines below the headband are short and heavy
4 The small DO is shor

1853 Forgeries

Reproduced by photographic methods and printed by off-set.
1. Very definite break in the head of the S
2. White dots in the upper ear.
3. Very defined break at the base of Lower C.
4. The base of the small ‘s’ is straight.
5. Dot in the nose tip is missing
6. The 2 genuine trait lines in the large white space left below the ear are only partial

Peter Winter - German States Forgeries

Peter Winter founded the company ProPhilForum POC GmbH which in 1986, operated from a post office box address in Bremen, He began to produce and sell replicas of more than 180 of the world's most valuable stamps, both on and off cover, for modest prices. 

Some of the reproductions were determined to have been made not from the stamps themselves but from copyright photographs which Winter had obtained from the British Library in London by means of a false declaration of intended use.

Forgeries

I am not describing the forgeries, only showing them. In a few case where you see 2 divided stamps, the genuine is on the left, Winter forgery on the right.

Baden

 Bergedorf

Bremen

Brunswick

Hannover

Lubeck

Oldenburg

Saxony

Wurttemberg