Sperati Forgeries

Hi to all

With many forgeries about, is their a difinitive work on the Sperati forgeries.
I think that some of the forgeries I have may be Sperati's.

They are now becoming very collectable, and some are fetching large sums of money.


Regards

Horamakhet

if you show them it may help.

Pagoda

When the British Philatelic Association bought out Sperati in 1954, they published a definitive work on his forgeries in three volumes. The third volume contained his actual forgeries, and as I remember, could not be sold in the United States, at that time. Numerous other publications have appeared since then. As you point out, his forgeries are popular with collectors (including myself) and command fairly decent prices. Even photographic images from his original negatives are peddled at relatively high prices.

Note that more Speratis have emerged since the 'definitive' work from 1954.

"The Work of Jean de Sperati" volumes I-IV, British Philatelic Association 1955. Vol. IV contained examples of the actual stamps, I've never seen it offered for sale in the US.

"The Work of Jean de Sperati II," Robson Lowe and Carl Walske, 2001 update.

Classical,

re.

" Note that more Speratis have emerged since the 'definitive' work from 1954 ".

that is a cryptic comment, do you want to explain what it means,

Pagoda

Pagoda, sure.

It just means that the definitive work by the British Philatelic Association in the 1950's is in fact, not definitive.

dudley mentioned an update by Lowe and Walske in 2001.

One has to wonder if all Speratis will ever be found?

Some examples of Sperati's work here:

http://www.rfrajola.com/sperati/speratiindex.htm

If you visit Richard Frajole's link above be sure to stay a while and look around his web site. It is one of the best philatelic resources around. It shows many Exhibit's from Philatelic Shows, a Census of postal history and much more. I have spent hours at a time enjoying his web site.

Hi to all

Thanks for that
I will now be on the search for the works re the forgeries.

I will post pictures of what I think may be forgeries later, but at the moment, I am working 12 hour days up Christmas Eve.
Horamkhet