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Dr. Lucian Smeets was a "MAIN DISPLAYS AT JOINT BWISC/BCPSG MEETING"
in British West Indies Study Circle ''Bulletin'', No. 186, September 2000, pp. 62-63
Archived here.
/ref> *Serbian stamps of 1901 and 1904.
Dr. Lucian Smeets was a Belgian
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* Something of, or related to, Belgium
* Belgians, people from Belgium or of Belgian descent
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*Ancient Belgian language, an extinct languag ...
stamp forger
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 ...
operating around the early 1900s The 1900s may refer to:
* 1900s (decade), the decade from 1900 to 1909
* The century from 1900 to 1999, almost synonymous with the 20th century
The 20th (twentieth) century began on
January 1, 1901 ( MCMI), and ended on December 31, 2000 ( MM ...
.
Smeets used a sophisticated method of taking an original stamp with the correct perforations
A perforation is a small hole in a thin material or web. There is usually more than one perforation in an organized fashion, where all of the holes collectively are called a ''perforation''. The process of creating perforations is called perfor ...
, paper and watermark
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for the one he wished to forge, fading out the printing and then printing a new design
A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product, or process. The verb ''to design'' ...
of the desired stamp
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Official documents and related impressions
* Postage stamp, used to indicate prepayment of fees for public mail
* Ration stamp, indicating the right to rationed goods
* Revenue stamp, used on documents to ...
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 ...
.in British West Indies Study Circle ''Bulletin'', No. 186, September 2000, pp. 62-63
Archived here.
/ref> *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