| Security
Markings - British Consular Post
Office at Bangkok |
| Fake Bangkok Stamps Identified Owing to
Firm Chops |
| An advantage of studying the
companies that operated in Bangkok prior to the closure of the British
Post office is the identification of fake stamps. All of the
B-overprinted stamps below are fakes - the "B" has been applied to a
genuine Straits Settlements stamp. The stamps displayed here are
easily identified as fakes because each has a firm chop of a company
that did not do business in Bangkok prior to 30 June 1885, the day the
British Post Office closed. |
|
C. M. B. = CHARTERED
MERCANTILE BANK
|
CHARTERED
MERCANTILE
BANK / PENANG
|
H. & S. B. C. = HONG KONG
AND SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION
|
|
GILILLAN,
WOOD & Co /
SINGAPORE
|
G & Co = GUTHRIE & Co |
SYME & Co. / SINGAPORE |
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