Philatelic Series CD 41
Identify Early Stamp Forgeries
Five Pioneering Books From The 1860s.
Various authors, 1862-8, 203 pages in total.
The authors of these five classic books have identified stamps forged before 1870 and described the features which can be used to distinguish the forgeries from the originals. An example (from book 5) for Bavaria can be seen below. Early essays and fictitious stamps (phantasies) are also listed and described in some of the books.
1. On The Falsification Of Postage Stamps or, A General Nomenclature Of All The Imitations And Forgeries, As Well As Of The Various Essay Stamps Of All Countries.
J. B. Moens (1862), 32pp. (An English translation of the book 'De la falsification de la timbres-poste'.)
2. Forged Stamps: How To Detect Them.
T. Lewes, E. L. Pemberton (1863), 36pp.
3. Forged Stamps: How To Detect Them, 2nd Edition.
E. L. Pemberton (1866-8), 30pp. (Originally serialised articles in 'The Philatelist' journal.)
4. How To Detect Forged Stamps.
T. Dalston (1865), 39pp. Includes details of early fictitious varieties, including chemically changed stamps.
5. Postage Stamp Forgeries or, The Collector's Vade Mecum.
J. M. Stourton (1865), 66pp. Descriptions of over 700 forgeries, exclusive of essays and chemically changed stamps.
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