Comparative Stamp Forgery
Identification Site


This site shows philatelic stamp fakes and forgeries by country and year of issue. You can click on a country name to see a thumbnail catalog of that countries issues and then select a stamp by clicking on that postage stamp. Alternately, you can first click on a year of issue and then select the stamp from there. Clicking on a stamp will bring more detail deeper in the tree. Check back often as this Philatelic Stamp Forgery site is new regularly. Forgers covered are Sperati, Fournier, Spiro, Oneglia and others.

This site is intended to be educational, informing viewers of common forgeries and showing their characteristics, primarily by comparison. This site is not intended to be used to certify genuine original stamps, as that can only be done by comparison face to face with genuine reference stamps and forgeries by an expert.

We now have available the entire Fournier Album on CD. Click the link to the left to see a sneak preview.

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Click on a country name for a pictorial index
or a year for that issue.

                   


Click on a letter to jump to that country index
USA  A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  R  S  T  U-Z 

United States  Click here for country index (comparison)
Confederate States   See Kevin Baker site.

Afghanistan  Click here for country index (comparison)
Albania  Click here for country index Fournier Album      Fournier Album Overprints
Alexandria  Click here for country index Fournier Album
Alpenvorland Adria  Click here for country index (comparison)
Alsace 1870  Click here for country index (comparison)    Fournier Album
Andorra  Click here for country index (comparison)
Angola 1870  Click here for country index (comparison)    Fournier Album
Anjouan  Click here for country index (comparison)    Fournier Album
Annam and Tonkin  Click here for country index (comparison)    Fournier Album
Antigua  Click here for country index (comparison)
Antioquia  Click here for country index (comparison)
Argentina  Click here for country index (comparison)    Fournier Album
Argentina Buenos Aires   Fournier Album
Armenia 1921  Click here for country index (comparison)
Austria  Click here for country index (comparison)    Fournier Album
     Levant, Austrian Offices   Fournier Album
Azerbaijan  Click here for country index (comparison)   
Azores  Click here for country index (comparison)    Fournier Album

Baden Sperati   Sperati forgeries    Fournier Album
Bahamas  Click here for country index (comparison)
Bangkok  Click here for country index (comparison)
Barbados  Click here for country index (comparison)    Fournier Album
Bateken  Click here for country index (comparison)
Bavaria  Click here for country index (comparison)    Fournier Album
Bavaria Sperati   Sperati forgeries 
Bechuanaland   Fournier Album
Belgian Congo  Click here for country index Fournier Album
Belgium   1914 Merode Monument 20 Cent (Scott B30); 1929-31 Newspaper (Scott P20)    Fournier Album   another site forgeries of Belgium stamps Mérode and Albert 1
Benin  Click here for country index (comparison)      Fournier Album       Fournier Album       Fournier Cancel p33
Bergedorf  Click here for country index (comparison)
Berlin  Click here for country index (comparison)
Bermuda  Click here for country index (comparison)
Bolivar   Country Index,  
Bolivia (comparison)   Fournier Album,  
Bosnia  Click here for country index (comparison)    Fournier Album
Brazil  Click here for country index (comparison)    Fournier Album
Brazil Fournier   Fournier Album  
Bremen  Click here for country index (comparison)    Fournier Album
Bremen Sperati   Sperati forgeries 
British Central Africa  Click here for country index Fournier Album
British East Africa  Click here for country index Fournier Album
British Columbia  Click here for country index (comparison)
British Columbia
Sperati
  Sperati forgeries 
British Guayana   Fournier Album
British Solomon Islands  Click here for country index (comparison)
British Solomon Islands Tulgai.com Site     Cancels     Use the Back button to return here.
British Somaliland  Click here for country index (comparison)     Fournier Album
British South Africa  Click here for country index Fournier Album
Brunswick  Click here for country index (comparison)    Fournier Album
Brunswick Sperati   Sperati forgeries 
Buenos Aires   Fournier Album
Bulgaria  Select BG Forgeries HERE    Fournier Album
Bulgaria Fournier
Cancels
  Fournier Album Cancellations and overprints 
Burma   see Richard Warren site (forgeries link is fourth from bottom 





Click on a letter to jump to that country index
USA  A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  R  S  T  U-Z 


Cameroons Kamerun Canada Cape of Good Hope Cape Verde Caroline Is. Ceylon Chile China Colombia Comoro Cook Costa Rica Crete Cuba Cuprus Czechoslovakia

Dahomey Danish West Indies Denmark Diego Suarez Dominica Dominican Republic

Ecuador Egypt Estonia

Falkland Islands Fournier Album France French Colonies Congo Guiana Guinea India Polynesia Sudan

Gabon Gambia Gibralter Great Britain Gold Coast Guadeloupe Guatemala

Haiti Heligoland Hong Kong Hungary

Ionian Islands IndoChina Iran Italy

Japan

Labuan Lagos Latvia Lebanon Liberia Lithuania Lubeck Luxemburg

Macao Malta Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mecklenburg Mexico Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat

Netherlands New Brunswick New Caledonia Newfoundland New Zealand
Nicaragua Nigeria North Borneo North Ingermanland Nova Scotia
Obock Oldenburg

Paraguay Parma Persia

Reunion Rhodesia Roman States Romagna Romania Rouad, Ile Russia

Saar St. Christopher St. Helena Ste. Marie de Madagascar St. Thomas & Prince St. Vincent
San Marino Samoa Sardinia Saxony Sedang Senegambia Senegambia
Siam Sierra Leone Shanghai Solomon Islands Somaliland South Australia Southern Nigeria
Spain Surinam Sweden Switzerland

Thailand Tibet Timor Togo Transvaal Trinidad Turkey Tuscany
Uruguay Venezuela VietNam Wenden Wurttemburg