THIS IS A SPECIAL FEATURE OF THE PHILATELIC EXPERTS WEB SITE,
INCORPORATING THE STAMP FORGERY GUIDE.
Welcome to the site's main page with the introduction.

INDEX
Short monographs on forged stamps

The purpose of most of these illustrated articles is to assist in identifying forgeries of specific postage stamps or other philatelic fakes. More articles will be added at irregular intervals. Click on the links below to see the texts so far available.
All articles are copyright © G. Kock.

Guides to forgeries of certain common stamps: Venezuela 1896.
The Blum case (a modern German postmark forgery)
German postmark forgeries (earlier cases)
Forged Finnish postmarks
Forged postmarks worldwide (on mainly pre-1920 stamps, with many images)
Faked postmarks on Commonwealth stamps (issued 1960s onwards)
Majlund, the forger (in Finnish)
Ruhleben P.O.W. Camp Stamps
Samoa Express Forgeries
Arab Kingdom of Syria
Occupation Azirbayedjan (geography of a bogus stamp issue).
Salli, a Finnish forger (some rare forgeries of Finnish stamps)
World Forgery Catalogue (a PDF version of the 1998 book)

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