The ‘Gray’ Kangaroos, of Course!
A collection of mostly mint Kangaroos does not readily fit the profile of a column largely devoted to stamp usage
Hawaii: A Classic Bogus Issue
Fred Melville, the well-known English philatelist and writer, was undoubtedly the foremost early 20th century expert on bogus stamps. He
Album Weeds: Japan 1871 – 1876 (1906)
Since the second edition of this work appeared, large numbers of excellent, engraved forgeries have been put on the market.
Henry Flachskamm, Philatelic Forger
The following has been extracted from Stamp News (March, 1984) which was reprinting from Dr Tyler’s book Philatelic Forgeries –
Stamp Forgeries (1951)
The following is an excerpt from Postage Stamps, Puffin Picture Book 69 (1951) by L.N and M. Williams. Many stamps
Chalk Lines
To prevent the cleaning of used stamps and make it difficult to reproduce or counterfeit by photography, an underprint of
