List of stamp forgers
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Soon after their introduction in 1840 postage stamp
Postage stamp
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper that is purchased and displayed on an item of mail as evidence of payment of postage. Typically, stamps are made from special paper, with a national designation and denomination on the face, and a gum adhesive on the reverse side...

s started to be forged.

The first book about the topic was written in 1862 by Jean-Baptiste Moens
Jean-Baptiste Moëns
Jean-Baptiste Philippe Constant Moens was a Belgian philatelist recognized as the first dealer in stamps for collectors. He was one of the original philatelic journalists.- Youth :...

 from Belgium De la falsifications des timbres-poste. Shortly afterwards Edward Loines Pemberton
Edward Loines Pemberton
Edward Loines Pemberton was a pioneering philatelist and stamp dealer who was a leading advocate of the scientific school of philately and a founding member of The Philatelic Society, London, now The Royal Philatelic Society London...

 published Forged Stamps: How to detect them and subsequently Robert Brisco Earée
Robert Brisco Earée
The Reverend Robert Brisco Earée was an English philatelist, known for his studies of philatelic fakes and forgeries. He was the son of the Reverend William Earee M.A.- Life :...

 produced his legendary Album Weeds. Today there is an extensive literature on the forgers and their work, and examples from the most accomplished forgers sometimes sell for more than the original stamp.

Notorious and famous stamp forgers include:
  • The Spiro Brothers
  • Rainer Blüm
    Rainer Blüm
    Rainer Blüm is a German citizen from Bensheim who has pleaded guilty to producing and selling forged philatelic material, including cancellations and expertizing certifications....

  • Sigmund Friedl
    Sigmund Friedl
    Sigmund Friedl was one of the most famous Austrian philatelists, who misused his knowledge toward the end of his life to make forgeries harming the stamp collectors....

  • Georges Fouré
    Georges Fouré
    Georges Fouré was a 19th-century French-German philatelist and stamp forger.Fouré lived in Berlin and was the editor of the Berliner Illustrierte Briefmarkenzeitung. As such he introduced his audience to remarkable "discoveries" of stamps of the German States that in reality he had created...

  • François Fournier
    François Fournier
    François Fournier was a stamp forger who thought of himself as a creator of "art objects" and a friend of the little man....

  • Madame Joseph
    Madame Joseph
    Madame Joseph was a stamp dealer active in London in the early part of the twentieth century and who has since been revealed to be a major supplier of stamps with forged cancels...

  • Louis-Henri Mercier (Henri Goegg)
  • Erasmo Oneglia
    Erasmo Oneglia
    Erasmo Oneglia was an Italian printer, born in Turin, who was also a successful stamp forger in the 1890s and early 1900s.Oneglia's first forgeries are believed to have been of the early stamps of Newfoundland and they are included in the second edition of Robert Brisco Earee's Album Weeds in...

  • Oswald Schroder
  • Jean de Sperati
    Jean de Sperati
    Jean de Sperati was among the most noted stamp forgers of the world. Even professional stamp authenticators of his time attested to the genuineness of his stamps...

  • Raoul de Thuin
    Raoul de Thuin
    Raoul Charles de Thuin was a prolific stamp forger and dealer who was originally a citizen of Belgium but who operated from Merida, Yucatan in Mexico, of which country he eventually became a naturalised citizen...

  • Harold Treherne
    Harold Treherne
    Harold Treherne of Brighton, England, was a stamp forger notable for his forgeries of the stamps of India and Australia who was known as The Brighton forger and his works as Brighton forgeries.-First forgeries:...

  • Peter Winter
    Peter Winter (philately)
    Peter Winter is a stamp reproducer. He was also trained as an opera singer.- The "reproductions" :In the early 1980s he offered "50 of the most valuable and significant stamps, authentically reproduced" and indicated that in order to reproduce these stamps as authentically as possible, he had...

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