I have been collecting stamps for nearly 20 years and you might think that is long enough to learn how to distinguish genuine item from forged stamps. VERY UNTRUE . On several occasions I've ended up with...
I was asked by one of the Stamp Collecting magazines to write an article about collecting signed First Day, WW2 other signed covers. This was published in mid 2006 and judging by the feedback proved useful to...
In about 1912, forgeries of the Penny Black were made from a photograph of a genuine block of stamps from Plate 9. They shouldn't dupe the experienced collector, but if you are new to philately and perhaps...
Mail have been stolen from the day the mails have started. Important mail had the picture of gallows printed on them to warn illiterate thieves of what would happen if the mail was stolen. Stealing mail...
How to recognize a T-E-N CENTS Confederate stamp and tell it from a 10 CENTS Confederate stamp and various reproductions are the topics of this guide. The Dietz 9 , also Scott #9 is the second most elusive of...
FORGERY OF THE OLDEST INDIAN STAMP....THE RED SCINDE DWARKE POSTAGE STAMP.I have been a stamp collector for 50 odd years.When my sister and I first combed the streets of Bombay,fifty years agi in search of...