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.
Reunion | Click here for country index (comparison) Fournier Album Fournier Album Fournier Album |
Rhodesia | Click here for country index (comparison) |
Roman States | Roman States Sperati forgeries |
Romagna | Click here for country index (comparison) p115 p116 p117 p118 p120 |
Romania | Click here for country index (comparison) Fournier Album p121 p122 p123 p124 p125 |
Romania | Select RO Forgeries HERE |
Rouad, Ile | Click here for country index (comparison) |
Russia | Click here for country index (comparison) |
Russia Fournier | Fournier Album |
Levant, Russian Offices | Fournier Album |
Russia Offices in China | Fournier Album |