Tracing a Spanish Forger’s Footprints. By Gerhard Lang-Valchs. About the previous research When I started some years ago my research on the little known Spanish stamp dealer and forger Plácido Ramón de Torres (1847-1910) I could not imagine I would discover the activities the most prolific stamp illustrator world-wide who was probably at a time
By Gerhard Lang-Valchs. Edward Loines Pemberton was, together with John Edward Gray, one of the pioneers of British philately. Both were renowned experts and contributed several critical articles in various philatelic reviews concerning stamp forgeries. Pemberton was the author of the first British stamp catalogue and co-author of the book Forged Stamps: How to Detect
By Carles Prats. We have detected a worrying and growing presence in some nonprofessional, online auction sites of forgeries imitating Republican local war tax stamps. Some of these values were listed by Luis Alemany in the Sofima-Fesofi “Catálogo de los sellos «locales» emitidos durante la guerra civil española 1936-1939” (Correos y Telégrafos, 1995) and by