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List Of Famous Stamp Forgers
Soon after their introduction in 1840 postage stamps started to be forged. The first book about the topic was written in 1862 by Jean-Baptiste Moens from Belgium ''De la falsifications des timbres-poste''. Shortly afterwards Edward Loines Pemberton published ''Forged Stamps: How to detect them'' and subsequently Robert Brisco Earée produced his legendary ''Album Weeds''. 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 * Rainer Blüm * Clive Feigenbaum; ex-chairman of Stanley Gibbons * Sigmund Friedl * Georges Fouré * François Fournier * Madame Joseph * Louis-Henri Mercier (Henri Goegg) * Erasmo Oneglia * Angelo Panelli * Mendel ShapiroHaifa, Israel; the PATCO fraud; "The Israel Philatelist", July–August 1967, pp. 1942–5 * Lucian Smeets * Jean de Sperati * Raoul de Thuin * Harold Trehern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Postage Stamp
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail), who then affix the stamp to the face or address-side of any item of mail—an envelope or other postal cover (e.g., packet, box, mailing cylinder)—that they wish to send. The item is then processed by the postal system, where a postmark or cancellation mark—in modern usage indicating date and point of origin of mailing—is applied to the stamp and its left and right sides to prevent its reuse. The item is then delivered to its addressee. Always featuring the name of the issuing nation (with the exception of the United Kingdom), a denomination of its value, and often an illustration of persons, events, institutions, or natural realities that symbolize the nation's traditions and values, every stamp is printed on a piece of usually rectangular, but sometimes triangular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-Henri Mercier (Henri Goegg)
Louis-Henri Mercier, whose real name was ''Henri Goegg'', was a stamp forger operating from Geneva, Switzerland, whose business formed the foundation for the much more successful forger François Fournier. Goegg commenced his business in 1890, having registered his trademark with the Swiss authorities on 27 August. He specialised in reproductions of old Swiss stamps which he called ''reimpressions''. He stated in his advertising that ''"The reimpressions are printed one at a time on plates carefully prepared, and on paper of the period of the originals, which is deceiving to the eye of the greatest connoisseur and most expert. All these stamps are cancelled."'' Tyler (1976), p. 29 In 1894 Goegg registered a new trademark under the name ''Louis-Henri Mercier'', possibly so as to fit in better in French-speaking Geneva and that was the name he used thereafter. Although Mercier's forgeries were of high quality, his business was not financially successful and eventually he became bank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philatelic Fakes And Forgeries
In general, philatelic fakes and forgeries are labels that look like postage stamps but have been produced to deceive or defraud. Learning to identify these can be a challenging branch of philately. To a large extent the definitions below are consistent with those given in the introduction to various recent editions of the ''Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue''. "We use the term ''"forgery"'' to indicate stamps produced to defraud collectors (properly known as forgeries) and to defraud stamp-issuing governments (properly known as counterfeits). ''"Fake"'' is used to indicate the alteration of a genuine stamp to make it appear as something else. Fakes might refer to cancellations, overprints, added or clipped perforations, stamp design alterations, etc." While difficult to do today, one famous case is the Stock Exchange forgery of the late 19th century. Questions are often raised about when a stamp is legitimately produced for postage. Matthew Karanian has proposed the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Winter (philately)
Peter Winter (born in Germany) is a stamp reproducer. He also trained as an opera singer. The "reproductions" In the early 1980s he offered "50 of the most valuable and significant stamps, authentically reproduced" and indicated that in order to reproduce these stamps as authentically as possible, he had refrained from marking them as reproductions. They were produced under the company label "Bruyère". In or after 1985 he released rare stamps of various countries through "ProPhil Forum P.O.C." (Process Optimation Computersystems). Subsequently there were the reproductions of "Edition ‘85", then "Edition 88", the later offered by the Swiss "House of Stamps". A special was the offering of the four of the most famous stamps of the world, the Mauritius "Post Office", the Penny Black, the Baden 9 Kreuzer error and the British Guiana 1c magenta for 249 DM. The stamps were offered as reproductions by Winter, but their lack of permanent identification made them easy objects of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Treherne
Harold Treherne (c. 1884 – after 1908) of Brighton, England, was a stamp forger notable for his forgeries of the stamps of India and Australia who was known as ''The Brighton forger'' and his works as ''Brighton forgeries''.Tyler, Varro E. ''Philatelic Forgers: Their Lives and Works.'' Revised edition. Sidney, Ohio: Linn's Stamp News, 1991, pp.140-141. First forgeries Treherne appears to have entered the forgery business about 1902 or slightly earlier when he was working as a clerk in Brighton. He would have been aged about 18 in 1902. Treherne at first produced only fake overprints and surcharges, or imperforate whole stamps as he lacked perforating or rouletting equipment and the overprints and surcharges only required simple printing in black ink. Later he moved on to more sophisticated forgeries. The ''Excelsior Traders' Supply Company'' in London supplied Treherne with a large number of zinc cliches and printing plates including overprints, surcharges and complete stamps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raoul De Thuin
Raoul Charles de Thuin (1890–1975)Tyler, Varro E. ''Philatelic Forgers: Their Lives and Works.'' London: Robson Lowe Ltd., 1976, p.49. was a prolific stamp forger and dealer who was originally a citizen of BelgiumChemi, James M., ed. ''The Yucatan Affair: The Work Of Raoul Ch. de Thuin, Philatelic Counterfeiter''. State College, Pennsylvania: The American Philatelic Society Inc., 1974, p.377. but who operated from Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, of which country he eventually became a naturalised citizen. De Thuin's work was considered so dangerous to philately that his tools and stock were purchased by the American Philatelic Society in 1966 in order to curtail his activities. Origins and travels De Thuin stated that he was engaged in philatelic "work" as early as 1916 and the philatelic world began to be aware of him between the two World Wars. In 1927 he had a shop ''Maison de Thuin'', at 35 Boulevard Lambermont in Brussels, Belgium. Services included the removal of fiscal cance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean De Sperati
Giovanni (Jean) de Sperati (14 October 1884 – 28 April 1957) was an Italian stamp forger. Robson Lowe considered him an artist and even professional stamp authenticators of his time attested to the genuineness of his work. Sperati created what he called a ''Livre d'Or'' which he boasted of in his autobiography and which contained 239 favourable opinions as to the genuineness of his forgeries from numerous experts, including Dr. Edward Diena and the Royal Philatelic Society London. Early life Sperati was born 1884 in Pistoia, Italy, though he spent a large part of his life in France where he adopted the name Jean. Sperati retained his Italian passport throughout his life and always considered himself an Italian.Lowe & Walkse, 2001, p. 131. As a child in Pistoia and later in France, Sperati began to collect stamps. He was particularly interested in printing techniques, as well as photography which was in its infancy at that time. Relatives owned a postcard factory as well as a pap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucian Smeets
Dr. Lucian Smeets was a Belgian stamp forger operating around the early 1900s. Smeets used a sophisticated method of taking an original stamp with the correct perforations, paper and watermark for the one he wished to forge, fading out the printing and then printing a new design of the desired stamp on the blank. Among the stamps Smeets is believed to have forged are: *British Solomon Islands Protectorate canoe stamps. * British Victorian stamps. *Nevis Nevis is a small island in the Caribbean Sea that forms part of the inner arc of the Leeward Islands chain of the West Indies. Nevis and the neighbouring island of Saint Kitts constitute one country: the Federation of Saint Kitts and Ne .... *Serbian stamps of 1901 and 1904. References Stamp forgers Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown 20th-century Belgian criminals Philately of the Solomon Islands {{belgium-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelo Panelli
Angelo Panelli (c. 1887 – c. 1967) was an Italian stamp forger, operating from Sanremo in the 1920s and 1930s. Panelli was closely associated with other Italian forgers of the period, particularly Erasmo Oneglia. Tyler, Varro E. (1976) ''Philatelic Forgers: Their Lives and Works''. London: Robson Lowe, pp. 34-35. See also *List of stamp forgers *Philatelic fakes and forgeries References Further reading *''The Oneglia Engraved Forgeries Commonly Attributed to Angelo Panelli'', Robson Lowe John Harry Robson Lowe (7 January 1905, London – 19 August 1997, Bournemouth) was an English professional philatelist, stamp dealer and stamp auctioneer. Life and career Lowe is regarded by philatelists as the father of postal history, ha ... & Carl Walske, James Bendon, Limassol, Cyprus, 1996. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Panelli, Angelo 1880s births 1960s deaths Year of death uncertain Year of birth uncertain Stamp forgers Italian male criminals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erasmo Oneglia
Erasmo Oneglia (1853–1934) was an Italian printer, born in Turin, who was also a successful stamp forger in the 1890s and early 1900s. Oneglia's first forgeries are believed to have been of the early stamps of Newfoundland and they are included in the second edition of Robert Brisco Earee's ''Album Weeds'' in 1892. In 1897 he was arrested in London for trying to sell forgeries to the stamp dealers Stanley Gibbons, however, he was let off with a fine of just 20 shillings and his stock confiscated. Oneglia was closely associated with other Italian forgers of the period such as Angelo Panelli, as well as with the brothers Mariano and Jean de Sperati who worked in Turin for a while and probably with Oneglia.''Philatelic Forgers: Their Lives and Works'', Varro E. Tyler, Robson Lowe, London, 1976, p.32. See also *List of stamp forgers *Philatelic fakes and forgeries References Further reading *''The Oneglia Engraved Forgeries Commonly Attributed to Angelo Panelli'', Robson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madame Joseph
Madame Joseph (c.1900 – after late 1940s)"Madame Joseph - The Origin?" by Brian Cartwright in ''The London Philatelist'', No. 1344, Vol. 116, April 2007, pp. 102–104. Year of birth approximate. 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. In conjunction with her collaborators, more than four hundred fake cancellations were used, dated up to 1949. A 1967 Aden canceller (MJ10) may not be a contemporary fake. Unfortunately, this is missing from the Royal Philatelic Society London archive. Forgery business Known as "Madame Joseph" because she went by the surname Joseph and was possibly French or Belgian (her first name is unknown), Joseph, her accomplices and successors used fake handstamps to turn common unused stamps into more valuable used ones. Some fake cachets, cork cancels, surcharges and overprints were also used. More than four hundred fake cancels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Baptiste Moens
Jean-Baptiste Philippe Constant Moens (27 May 1833, Tournai – 28 April 1908) was a Belgium, Belgian philatelist recognized as the first stamp dealer, dealer in stamps for collectors. He was one of the original philatelic literature, philatelic journalists. Youth Moens began stamp collecting, collecting stamps from his family's mail as a boy in Tournai. He was the son of Colette Blangenois and Phillipe Moens, a soldier. He began with a small business in coins. By 1853, at age nineteen, he was buying and selling new and second-hand books, and Postage stamp, stamps, from the Galerie Borthier, a covered walkway in central Brussels. Within a decade he was putting out a stamp catalog with illustrated supplements. First catalogue In March 1862, with Louis Hanciau, Moens published a catalog of stamps, the ''Manuel des collectionneurs de timbres-poste'' (Handbook for Stamp Collectors). This work is the first of its kind in Belgium and the second in the French language, following that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
