Why "Japanese Collections Are Unwittingly Forgery Collections" | Stanley Gibbons

Specialist Auction Describer, Edward Barrow, explores the work of Kotaro Wada, Japan's most prolific forger, and the man responsible for 'The Cherry Blossom Forgeries'.
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[@adamhuffman3354]

Wow! I had no idea that forgeries was so rampant in Chinese stamps! For some reason it makes collecting more fun!

[@johnlowell5905]

Used to buy the WADA forgeries, $3 each was the typical US price. Then I was in Japan and the dealers offered me many for less. If you have a lot of spare time you can determine the plate position and try to recreate the sheet.

[@jaut-76]

I do like the history behind the forgeries but will come out and say I got heavy burned with a forgery early on. I thought I was getting a 84c USA newspaper stamp but I got one made by the two German brothers. Not my proudest moment but you live and learn so this experience has made me more careful with collecting even my specimen sets and overprints

[@Rocket_scientist_88]

That monograph by Varro Tyler is an excellent resource… but if you are looking for a more comprehensive guide to early Japanese forgeries, the International Society of Japanese Philately can sell you a flash drive with electronic documents on it that take you through each issue, and each possibility for each issue. I had recently purchased an old collection of Japanese stamps, from the first issue through the Kobans - and wouldn’t you know it, every single stamp in it was a forgery! Still, I was happy that at least I had a great starting point for a reference collection of Japanese fakes. I paid about 2% of Scott (if the stamps had been real), so I wasn’t exactly crying over the money I spent. Now I can check the issues myself before making a purchase. Practice always helps!
Great video as always, SG!

[@sanijadresko2675]

Spiro brothers and de Sperati forgeries are expensive masterpieces

[@serga76.bodrov]

приветствую вас отличное видео спасибо. посмотрел с удовольствием

[@farokhjanmasomi4635]

با سلام آقای کیلومترها معصومین از ایران .آیا شما خرید تمبر داری ک نمونه کار را براتون ارسال کنم .سلام دوم آیا شما در نظر دارید ۴ عدد تمبر گویان بریتیش را برای فروش بگذارید ؟

[@vbolt1029]

I have rare Japan stamps...

[@hamoostaffat]

It's sad in a way because it is art in a way, kind of the same way we make copies of artworks to sell as prints, its when they try to use them to defraud for the value of the real item that bugs me, I would be happy to collect forged ones knowing they are forged, they are a piece of history after all and isn't that why most of us collect things anyway? To preserve a piece of history that interests us in the hope future generations can learn something from it and build on it