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.
Macao | Click here for country index (comparison) |
Madagascar | Fournier Album Fournier Album Overprints p161 Fournier Cancel p33 |
Maderia | Fournier Album |
Malta Sperati | Sperati forgeries |
Marianas | Fournier Album p25 Fournier Album |
Marshall Islands | Fournier Album p25 Fournier Album |
Martinique | Fournier Album p156 Fournier Album p162 Fournier Cancel p33 |
Mauritania | Click here for country index (comparison) |
Mauritius Fournier | Fournier Album 1849 |
Mauritius | Click here for country index (comparison) Fournier Album Overprints p164 |
Mayotte | Click here for country index (comparison) Fournier Cancel p33 |
Mecklenburg -
Schwerein Sperati |
Sperati forgeries |
Mexico | Click here for country index (comparison) |
Moheli | Fournier Cancel p33 |
Mongolia | Click here for country index (comparison) |
Montenegro | Click here for country index poszegel (comparison) |
Montserrat | Click here for country index (comparison) |
Montserrat Sperati | Sperati forgeries |
Morocco | Fournier Album Fournier Album Page 163 |
Natal | Fournier Album Fournier Album p53 |
Netherlands | Fournier Album |
Nevis | Nevis |
Netherlands Indies | Click here for country index (comparison) |
New Brunswick | 1851 Issue; 1860 Issue |
New Caledonia | Click here for country index (comparison) Fournier Album Fournier Album Overprints Fournier Cancel p33 |
Newfoundland | 1857 Issue; |
Newfoundland Sperati | Sperati forgeries |
New Republic | New Republic |
New Zealand | Click here for country index (comparison) |
Nicaragua | Click here for country index (comparison) |
Niger Coast | Fournier Album |
Nigeria | Click here for country index (comparison) |
North Borneo | Click here for country index (comparison) Fournier Album |
North Ingermanland | Click here for country index (comparison) |
Northern Nigeria | Click here for country index (comparison) |
Norway | Click here for country index (comparison) |
Nossi Be | Fournier Album Fournier Album Overprints Fournier Cancel p33 |
Nova Scotia | 1851 Issue; 1860 Issue |
Obock | Click here for country index (comparison) Fournier Album Fournier Cancel p33 Fournier Album Page 163 |
Oldenburg | 1852-55 Issue; 1859-61 Issue; Fournier |
Oldenburg Sperati | Sperati forgeries |
Orange River Colony | Fournier Album |
Pahang | Page 165 |
Panama | Panama |
Paraguay | Click here for country index (comparison) |
Parma | Comparison Sperati forgeries Fournier Album p110 p111 |
Perak | Page 165 |
Persia | Click here for country index (comparison) Page 165 |
Peru | Fournier Album |
Philippines | Page 166 |
Poland | Fournier Album |
Porto Rico | Porto Rico |
Portugal | Fournier Album |
Portuguese Guinee p75 p76 | Portuguese Guinee p75 p76 |
Portuguese India | Fournier Album Nova Goa cancel p80 p81 p82 p83 p84 |
Puerto Rico | Fournier Album Page 166 p112 |