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Today there is an extensive literature on the forgers and their work, and examples from the most accomplished forgers sometimes sell for more than the original stamp. Notorious and famous stamp forgers include: The Spiro Brothers [1] Rainer Blüm; Pêra de Satanás; Clive Feigenbaum; ex-chairman of Stanley Gibbons; Sigmund Friedl; Georges Fouré
The first postage stamp was issued in Great Britain in 1840, and by the early 1860s the first postage stamp forgery [3] —in the sense of a stamp created to fool philatelists into thinking that it is a genuine one—appeared on the market.
Pages in category "Stamp forgers" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * List of stamp forgers; A.
Forgeries of an overprint or surcharge on a common basic stamp. The Civil War period is particularly full of these. Overprinted stamps issued by the various "White" Armies have also been forged extensively. The stamps issued by the North-West Armies were particularly popular with the forgers, and dozens of different forgeries have been identified.
Stamp forgers (24 P) Pages in category "Philatelic fakes and forgeries" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
A sheet of Spiro forgeries of the Japanese 1872-75 Cherry Blossom stamps; includes forged cancels. Philip Spiro was the head of the German printing firm of Spiro Brothers of Hamburg who from 1864 to about 1880 produced around 500 different lithographed reproductions of postage stamps. [2]
The stamp forgeries of Sperati are some of the best in the world. He created forgeries of the 10 cent black, one of the first United States postal issues, in 1847. It is possible to identify these forgeries by two small flaws. [7] Many Sperati forgeries remain undetected. Sperati forged the most valuable rarities of the stamp world.
Expertization certificate issued in 2004 for a 1915 Russian 10 ruble postage stamp. Philatelic expertisation is the process whereby an authority is asked to give an opinion whether a philatelic item is genuine and whether it has been repaired or altered in any way.
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