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The cover of the second edition of Madame Joseph Revisited by Brian Cartwright showing forged cancels on genuine Falkland Islands stamps of 1933.. Madame Joseph (c.1900 – after late 1940s) [1] was a stamp dealer active in London in the early part of the twentieth century and who has since been revealed to be a major supplier of stamps with forged cancels.
The Precancel Gazette, a magazine for precancel collectors, was first published in 1919 and the Black Book, a catalog of US precancel stamps, was first published in 1940. [4] The Precancel Stamp Society, formed in 1922 from two previously-existing clubs, specializes in the study of precancels. A number of catalogs list all the types of ...
A model/batch number of the form nnnnHmmmm where 'nnnn' is a batch number and 'mmmm' is a model number ('6072H950' for example would be an H950 model). They were also date stamped using an 'F' for instruments manufactured during the first half of the year and an 'S' for those built in the second half, and a 2 digit year code.
By 1863 forgeries were so common that the book Forged Stamps: How to Detect Them was published [4] and by 1864, forgeries were being produced of both common and scarce stamps from a wide range of issuing countries such as Austria, British Guiana, Finland, India and Spain. [5] Jean de Sperati is among the master forgers in the history of philately.
Stamp Collections for War Museums, Stanley Gibbons, 1918, 40pp; Stamps of the Steamship Companies: A Rough List, 1915, 34pp; The ABC of Stamp Collecting, Henry J Drane, 1903, 159pp; The Boys Friend Book of Stamps of the British Empire, 1925, 19pp; The Cradle of the Postage Stamp, Harmer Rooke, 1923 30pp
Plating refers to the reconstruction of a pane or "sheet" of postage stamps printed from a single plate by using individual stamps and overlapping strips and blocks of stamps. [1] Likewise, if a sheet 10 or 20 postal cards is typeset , the variations of the letters or design elements may allow reconstruction or plating of the sheets based on ...
Canoe, 5 cents, plate number S11. The Transportation coils series is a set of definitive stamps issued by the United States Postal Service between 1981 and 1995. Officially dubbed the "Transportation Issue" or "Transportation Series", they have come to be called the "transportation coils" because all of the denominations were issued in coil stamp format. [1]
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