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STAMP EXPERTISING

PHILATELIC EXPERTS
How you can identify them. Names and areas of specialisation of 1 800 experts worldwide, past and present, who have signed stamps or issued certificates. Many scans of expert marks. The listings:
By name: A to F
By name: G to L
By name: M to R
By name: S to Z
By country: A to E
By country: F to G
By country: H to R
By country: S to Z
All names (avoid; very large file)

The experts by first names, and a
Glossary of terms

Notes on some of the experts

The philatelic experts for Finland,
for Croatia, and for Poland (old)

The position of marks (image)

Stamp certificates (image archive)

Expertising in 1905 (in German)

STAMP FORGERIES

THE STAMP FORGERY GUIDE
Sources for information on forged stamps and on expertising: bibliography of philatelic forgery literature, links

FORGED POSTMARKS:
The Blüm case (also expert marks)
Germany
Finland
British Commonwealth
Worldwide (on mainly pre-1920 stamps, with many images)

MORE:
Samoa Express reprints & forgeries, with an easy checklist

Stamp Forgeries, an index of stamps that have been forged

Samples of forgeries, an exhibit

Finland, Reference Manual of
Forgeries (the handbook)

Salli, a little known Finnish forger

Majlund, postimerkkiväärentäjä (the forger; in Finnish)

PHILATELIC PAPERS

These short illustrated articles cover limited aspects of different, less known, philatelic subjects.

Companhia de Moçambique

Small islands in the Near East (Rouad, Kastellorizon, Long Island, Kamaran)

Ruhleben POW Camp Stamps (including the forgeries, WW1)

Occupation Azirbayedjan (geography of a bogus stamp issue)

Borgå Ångfartygs Aktiebolag

Järnvägsaktiebolaget Fredrikshamn

Filateliaa ja osakekirjoja
Eräitä oy-muotoisia postim.liikkeitä.

Leimamerkit osakekirjoissa
(Revenue stamps for share issues.)

Några gamla tidningsurklipp (a few philatelic 19th century adverts; in Swedish)

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