Comparative Philatelic Forgery
Identification Site
This site shows 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 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 are working on putting the entire Fournier Album on line. Click the link to the left to see it.
Click on a country name for a pictorial index
or a year for that issue.
Iceland | Click here for country index Fournier Album |
Ile Rouad | Click here for country index (comparison) |
India | Click here for country index Fournier Album |
India States Chamba Faridicot Gwalior Jhind Nabha Patialia | Page 166 |
Inhambani | Page 166 |
Ionian Islands | Click here for country index (comparison) Fournier Album |
IndoChina | country index (comparison) Fournier Album p162 also Society of Indo-China Philatelists |
Iran | Click here for country index (comparison) Page 165 |
Italy | For English click HERE then BACK then click ROSE GRONCHI forgeries and then repeat the process for English. Fournier Album p98 |
Levant, Italian Offices | Fournier Album |
Sardinia Fournier | Fournier Album |
Romagna | Click here for country index (comparison) |
Tuscany Fournier | Fournier Album Page 143 Page 142 Page 144 |
Italian States
Sperati |
Sperati forgeries |
Ivory Coast | Fournier Album Fournier Cancel p33 |
Japan | forgeries (comparison) |
Karelia | Click here for country index (comparison) |
Kenya | Click here for country index (comparison) |
Kiautschou | Fournier Album |
Korea | Click here for country index (comparison) |
Labuan | Click here for country index (comparison) |
Lagos Sperati | Sperati forgeries |
Latvia | Click here for country index (comparison) |
Lebanon | 1945 Issue 15 Piasters (Scott #177) - Genuine + Forgery A (comparison) |
Lebanon | 1947 Issue 50 Centimes (Scott #197) - Genuine + Forgery A (comparison) |
Lebanon | 1947 Issue 1 Piaster (Scott #198) - Genuine + Forgery A (comparison) |
Leeward Islands | Page 164 |
Levant, German British French Italian Roumanian Russian Offices | Fournier Album p160 Fournier Album p157 |
Liberia | 1860-80 Fournier Issue |
Lithuania | Click here for country index (comparison) |
Lubeck | 1859-62 Issue |
Lubeck Sperati | Sperati forgeries |
Luxemburg | 1852-80 Issue Fournier Album p98 |