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Robert Brisco Earée (1846–1928) was an English priest and
Profile at Who Was Who in British Philately.Archive here
Retrieved 11 August 2010.
*''Album Weeds; or, How to Detect Forged Stamps'', 2nd edition, Stanley Gibbons Limited, London 1892. (One volume) *''Album Weeds; or, How to Detect Forged Stamps'', 3rd edition, Stanley Gibbons Limited, London 1906. (Two volumes) *''Album Weeds; or, How to Detect Forged Stamps'', The Gossip Printery, Holton, Kansas, U.S.A. 1931. (Reprint) *''The Spud Papers: An Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Early Philatelic Forgeries'', 1952. (With W. Dudley Atlee and Edward Loines Pemberton. Introduction by Lowell Ragatz.) *''Album Weeds; or, How to Detect Forged Stamps'', 3rd edition, Lowell Ragatz & Jim Beal, United States. (Reprint 1954 and 1975?) *''Album Weeds; or, How to Detect Forged Stamps'', 3rd edition, Manuka-Ainslie Press, Acton, Canberra, Australia. (Reprint, eight paperback parts circa 1960.)
Album Weeds online.
An online repository of the Album Weeds articles.
The Spud Papers online.
An online repository of the Spud Papers describing the forgeries made by Spiro.
"Album Weeds" Japan 1871-1875.Archived here.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Earee, Robert Brisco 1846 births 1928 deaths 19th-century English Anglican priests 20th-century English Anglican priests British philatelists Philatelic fakes and forgeries Signatories to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists
Robert Brisco Earée (1846–1928) was an English priest and philatelist
Philately (; ) is the study of postage stamps and postal history. It also refers to the collection and appreciation of stamps and other philatelic products. While closely associated with stamp collecting and the study of postage, it is possible ...
who was known for his studies of 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 ar ...
.
Life
A son of the Reverend William Earée, the young Robert Brisco Earée was educated at Cockermouth Grammar School, a boys' school inCumberland
Cumberland ( ) is an area of North West England which was historically a county. The county was bordered by Northumberland to the north-east, County Durham to the east, Westmorland to the south-east, Lancashire to the south, and the Scottish ...
. He was ordained as a priest in 1871 and was appointed as curate at Coggeshall, Essex, in the same year.
He married Florence Isabella Goff, daughter of Captain A. Goff (deceased), at Alphamstone, Essex, in August 1876."Alphamstone Marriage of the Rev. R. B. Earee" in ''The Bury and Norwich Post, and Suffolk Herald'', 15 August 1876, p.6. His father had been rector at Alphamstone since 1870.
While British chaplain in Berlin in the 1880s, Earée was responsible for raising a fund for a new church dedicated to St George.
In 1884, his sister Ada Earée, a singer known professionally as Ada Dorée, married the singer Eric Thorne
Frederick Thomas Thorne (1862 – 26 November 1922), stage name Eric Thorne, was an English singer and actor in musical theatre and comic opera.
His professional career began in 1884 with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company where he worked for almos ...
.
In 1890 Earée was inducted as Rector of Miserden
Miserden is a village and civil parish in Stroud District, Gloucestershire, England, north east of Stroud. The parish includes Whiteway Colony and the hamlets of Sudgrove and The Camp. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 420 ...
in Gloucestershire.
Philatelic work
Earée followed W. Dudley Atlee and Edward Loines Pemberton as the author of a series of articles, ''The Spud Papers'', describingforgeries
Forgery is a white-collar crime that generally consists of the false making or material alteration of a legal instrument with the specific intent to defraud. Tampering with a certain legal instrument may be forbidden by law in some jurisdict ...
which appeared in various publications between 1871 and 1881 before being published in book form in 1952. He also served as philatelic editor of ''The Bazaar'' 875
Earée is best known for the classic work ''Album Weeds; or, How to Detect Forged Stamps'', which went through three editions, numerous reprints, and is still regarded as one of the best all world guides to earlier forgeries and fakes ever produced. He summed up his philosophy in ''The Spud Papers'' by saying "if philatelists would only study their stamps a little more, instead of merely trying to see how many they can collect, I am certain that they would soon learn for themselves far more than any book or Spud Paper can teach them."
Earée was entered on the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists
The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists (RDP) is a Philately, philatelic award of international scale, created by the Philatelic Congress of Great Britain in 1921 to honour those who have advanced philately through research, expertise, or service. ...
in 1921.Retrieved 11 August 2010.
Publications
*''Album Weeds; or, How to Detect Forged Stamps'', 1st edition, Stanley Gibbons Limited, London 1882. (One volume) *"The Future of Stamp Collecting" in ''Nunn’s Philatelical Annual'', circa 1889*''Album Weeds; or, How to Detect Forged Stamps'', 2nd edition, Stanley Gibbons Limited, London 1892. (One volume) *''Album Weeds; or, How to Detect Forged Stamps'', 3rd edition, Stanley Gibbons Limited, London 1906. (Two volumes) *''Album Weeds; or, How to Detect Forged Stamps'', The Gossip Printery, Holton, Kansas, U.S.A. 1931. (Reprint) *''The Spud Papers: An Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Early Philatelic Forgeries'', 1952. (With W. Dudley Atlee and Edward Loines Pemberton. Introduction by Lowell Ragatz.) *''Album Weeds; or, How to Detect Forged Stamps'', 3rd edition, Lowell Ragatz & Jim Beal, United States. (Reprint 1954 and 1975?) *''Album Weeds; or, How to Detect Forged Stamps'', 3rd edition, Manuka-Ainslie Press, Acton, Canberra, Australia. (Reprint, eight paperback parts circa 1960.)
See also
* Fernand Serrane, a contemporary of Earee's who produced a later forgery guide.References
External links
Album Weeds online.
An online repository of the Album Weeds articles.
The Spud Papers online.
An online repository of the Spud Papers describing the forgeries made by Spiro.
"Album Weeds" Japan 1871-1875.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Earee, Robert Brisco 1846 births 1928 deaths 19th-century English Anglican priests 20th-century English Anglican priests British philatelists Philatelic fakes and forgeries Signatories to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists