The special interest in fakes and forgeries of stamps is represented in the WPL by 116 books and catalogs and 150 pamphlets in English, Finnish, French, German, Czech, Polish, Dutch, and Spanish.
Examples of some of our holdings:
Anon., Fakes and Forgeries of Germany and Colonies, 1966
Anon., Stamp Racket: A Survey Covering the Traffic in Counterfeit, Stolen and Washed Postage Stamps (1938)
Aretz, Frank, Know Your Stamps: Listing Counterfeits and Varieties (1941)
Atlee, W. ; Pemberton, E. ; Earee, R., The Spud Papers, an Illustrated Descriptive Catalog...Forgeries, (n.d.)
Billig, Fritz ; Stiedl, Otto E., Billig's Great Handbook on Forgeries, Vol.: Balkan States (1937-1938)
Billig, Fritz ; Stiedl, Otto E., Billig's Grosses Handbuch der Fälschungen: Bulgarien (1937-1938) [German]
British Philatelic Association, The Work of Jean de Sperati, Part I The Text and Part II The Plates (1955)
Chapier, Georges, Les Timbres de Fantaisie (1933) [French]
Chemi, James M., The Yucatan Affair: The Work of Raoul Ch. de Thuin, Philatelic Counterfeiter (1974)
Dorn, J., The Forged Stamps of All Countries (1942)
Earee, R. B., Album Weeds or, How to Detect Forged Stamps (1892, 2nd Ed. and 1906, 3rd Ed.)
Eastwood, Herbert, Philately Under the Lamp (1929)
Hoffman, R., Falsificaciones del Uruguay (n.d.) [Spanish]
Kalckhoff, F. ; Hilckes, H. ; Evans, E., An Illustrated Catalog of All Known Reprints of Officially Issued Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery, 1840-1892 (n.d.)
Levitsky, F. J. ; Jenkins, F. A., Roman States Forgeries: The Issue of 1867-1868 (1990)
Lewes, Thornton ; Pemberton, Edward, Forged Stamps: How to Detect Them (1863)
Melville, Frederick John, Ragatz Ed., Phantom Philately (1950)
Odenweller, Robert P. (ed.), Opinions 6: Philatelic Expertizing--An Inside View (1992)
Ossa, Mikko, Suomen Postimerkkien Vaarenteita [Forgeries of Finish Postage Stamps] (1977) [English/Finnish]
Pope, Mavis, , Stamp Forgeries of Colonies and States of Australia, Brisbane (1992}
Pugh, Kenneth W., Reference Manual of BNA Fakes, Forgeries and Counterfeits (1977-1979)
Ragatz, Lowell (ed.), The Fournier Album of Philatelic Forgeries (1970)
Ragatz, Lowell, An Introduction to the Literatire on Philatelic Forgeries (n.d.)
Schloss, Hermann, Distinguishing Characteristics of Classic Stamps Old German States (1948)
Schmid, Paul W., The Expert's Book: A Practical Guide to the Authentication of United States Stamps Washington-Franklin issues 1908-1923 (1990)
Slagmeulder, M., Les Timbres Faux de Belgique (1954) [French]
Tsang, Ming W., Hong Kong Forgeries (1994)
Tyler, Varro E., Philatelic Forgers, Their Lives and Works (1991)
In addition, the following journal is hardbound and available for reference:
The Cinderella Philatelist
See also the Book Review on Finland Reference Manual on Forgeries
An excellent series of articles on modern fakery can be found at the Home Page of Sheryll Oswald. See EBay - Forgeries, Fakes, Dodgy Sellers: The Tip of the Iceberg (Link permission granted by the author). Also visit Stamp Collectors Against Dodgy Sellers (SCADS)
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