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Another posting on eBay and another amazing error, errors could be as small as a mysterious dot appearing from somewhere or in this case a number.

This is supposed to be a variety of the S.G. 111 King Faisal surcharged stamp. It claims to have an extra number 1 between the 1 and 0 in the number 10 as you see on the right in the picture. This is unlisted in the catalogues and quiet frankly its a awful attempt.

The extra 1 which actually if you look closely doesn't look anything like the original '1' next to it, its ink is different and all signs suggest that this extra number was added after the stamp was posted and used, in other words forged, but i won't add it to the forgery collection yet.

I recently saw an advert advertising this stamp on eBay, its supposed to be an error of the King Faisal 1932 Stanley Gibbons number 107. It mentions in the advert that its the "wide space" variety and that it has S.G. number 107d.

I checked the SG website and the SG Middle East catalogue and I couldn't find an SG 107d. for Iraq, an honest mistake or an attempt to fool people or maybe there is such a number and i am mistaken, i don't think so.