568 - Forgery

Numeral 568 on a ray is a forgery. It has 23 rays rather then 24, the shape of the top of the 6 is different to the genuine issues and is usually seen on high value stamps only, with the date stamp portion missing, and often replacing a fiscal cancellation that has been "cleaned". For genuine Charters Towers 568 duplex stamps see here

L-R: Genuine duplex (24 rays), forgery (23 rays)

Forgery - Chalon

568 Forgery. Seen on Ebay

568 Forgery. Courtesy of Dave Elsmore

568 Forgery. Seen at Prestige Philately auction no 152

Forgery - Sideface

568 Forgery 

Forgery - Large Chalon

568 Forgery 

568 Forgery 

568 Forgery. Seen on Ebay

568 Forgery. Seen on Ebay

568 - Charters Towers

Charters Towers post office, 108 km south west of Townsville. The numeral 568 duplex canceller with 24 broken (3 segment) rays was used as a replacement canceller from December 1898 - February 1904

• Sideface duplex (December 1898 - February 1904) rated Common on stamp or piece and 3R on cover

Illustration and text from Cowan and Dell

Charters Towers numeral 165 HERE. Charters Towers date stamps HERE. Charters Towers registered HERE

FORGERY: 568 with 23 rays and a different slanted top of the numeral 6 is a forgery. It is also missing the datestamp component and is usually on a large chalon or high value fiscal or sideface issue. Examples can be seen here

L-R: Genuine duplex (24 rays), forgery (23 rays)

Pialba railway station, 32 km north north east of Maryborough, received its 10 bar railway numeral canceller 2b (7 mm) around 1902. Rated 5R. More information on railway numerals can be found here

Pialba numeral 342 HERE. Pialba date stamps HERE. Pialba registered HERE

Charters Towers 3rd Sideface

1899

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated common. Dated 4 January 1899

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated common. Dated 8 January 1899. Seen at Premier Postal auction no 64

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated common. Dated 18 July 1899

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated common. Dated 5 September 1899

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated common. Dated 22 September 1899

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated common. Dated 23 September 1899

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated common. Dated 4 October 1899

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated common. Dated 13 October 1899

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated common. Dated 16 October 1899

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated common. Dated 21 November 1899

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated common. Dated 21 December 1899. Seen on Ebay

1900

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated common. Dated 15 January 1900

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated 3R. Dated 23 April 1900

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated common. Dated 14 May 1900

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated common. Dated 26 May 1900

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated common. Dated 3 June 1900

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated common. Dated 21 July 1900

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated common. Dated 28 September 1900

1901

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated common. Dated 5 January 1901

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated 3R. Dated 18 February 1901. Seen at Phoenix Auction no 29 lot no 422

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated 3R. Dated 24 July 1901. Seen on Ebay 

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated common. Dated 23 September 1901

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated 3R. Dated 27 September 1901. Seen on Compuland

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated common. Dated 2 November 1901

1902

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated 3R. Dated 30 April 1902. Seen on Ebay 

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated 3R. Dated 22 September 1902. Seen in Phoenix auction no 2192

1903

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated common. Dated 16 February 1903

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated common. Dated 16 July 1903. Seen on Ebay

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated common. Dated 5 September 1903

Indistinct date

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated 3R. Dated 23 November 190-. From the collection of Carl Burnett

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated 3R. Dated 28 January. Seen at Premier Postal auction no 112

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated 3R. Dated 7 December. Seen on Ebay 

Charters Towers Sideface Duplex rated 3R. Dated 24 July 1901. Seen on Ebay 

Pialba Railway - 3rd Sideface

Pialba Sideface Barred Numeral 2b (7 mm) rated 5R. Dated 13 July 1903. Seen in the Queensland Stamp Collecting Facebook Group