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World Stamp Show Boston 2026, Boston, 23–30 May 2026 [50] ... AmeriStamp Expo - American Philatelic Society winter show; APS World Series. Americover ...
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.
Berkshire Stamp Club [85] Boston Philatelic Society [33] Bristol County Philatelic Society [86] Cape Cod Area Philatelic Group [87] Chelmsford Stamp Club [84] [68] Clara Barton Stamp Club [84] Fall River Philatelic Society [84] Franklin Stamp Club [84] Golden Bee Stamp Club [84] Granite City Stamp Club [84]
Admission is free of charge [7] and visitors can purchase a philatelic souvenir available to commemorate the show. These souvenirs come in the form of a Stampa overprinted Irish stamp issue, cover, or postcard with the show dates and venue. [8] Past souvenirs included the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, (2015) and the 1916 Rising (2016).
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.
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 Philatelic Foundation maintains a reference collection of postage stamps and is a major source of authentication of rare and valuable postage stamps for stamp collectors who wish to know if the “valuable” stamp they have is authentic or counterfeit, and, if it is authentic, whether it is free of defect.
Jean de Sperati's magnifying glass on display at the Royal Philatelic Society London An undated work of Jean de Sperati. Probably a proof. Sperati's first forgeries were of valuable stamps from San Marino, and stamp experts believed them to be genuine. Thereafter, he produced numerous reproductions of valuable stamps from all over the world.