WORLD FORGERY CATALOGUEA Reference List of Stamp Forgery
Descriptions
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This handy catalogue will make it much
easier for you to take advantage of the many valuable stamp forgery descriptions,
published in the good old handbooks. About 3000 different
forged sets or individual stamps and 7500 references to descriptions
in more than 70 important works are included. Also: reprints,
postal forgeries and forged local stamps. 270 countries are represented.
Forger Fournier's name is mentioned 750 times. The forged stamps are
identified by year of issue, denomination and Scott and Michel
catalogue numbers. The compiler, Mr. G. Kock, is the past secretary
of Helsingfors Frimarkssamlare Forening, who owns Finland's largest
stamp forgery collection.
The main sources are books: well known stamp forgery manuals and handbooks.
Periodicals and low-circulation specialist society papers etc. have not
been extensively utilised because they are not easily available when
needed. Earée and the great general works of the 1920s and 1930s are
still obtainable, either as originals or reprints or in many philatelic
libraries. There are often several references to descriptions of the same
stamp forgery.
Because general, whole world, stamp collecting is not as popular now as in
Fournier's days new pretentious forgeries are not often "issued". Therefore the World
Forgery Catalogue gives you a good idea of what stamp forgeries philatelists may
encounter, although many of the works cited are pre-World War 2. As
picking out stamp counterfeits, and the systematic collecting and studying of
them, has become a branch of philately, this book is useful both to
those who "like" and those who fight stamp forgeries.
90 pages. Size 15x21 cm. Published May 1998. ISBN
951-97415-3-4.
The first edition of the World Forgery Catalogue was obtainable
for $15 US.
E-mail:
kock
suomi24.fi (Address has
to be typed.)
The list
of 1700 Philatelic Experts
Names A–F, Names G–L,
Names M–R, Names S–Z,
Areas A–E, Areas F–G,
Areas H–R,
Areas S–Z,
First names,
All
Samoa Express forgeries —
Ruhleben POW Camp stamps
