Stamp Collecting for Beginners and Philatelists
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Glassine Surfer September 2002
http://www.geocities.com/Augusta/5525/forglinks.html
Comparative Philatelic Forgery Identification Site
http://www.geocities.com/claghorn1p/
Philatelic Experts
http://www.geocities.com/Augusta/5525/experts.html
eBay - forgeries, fakes, dodgy sellers, scams
http://www.pcug.org.au/~sheryll/Forgeries/Forgeries_article.htm
Bad CSA's
"Counterfeits and Fakes of Confederate Stamps" gets straight to the heart of the issue with a simple interface. Counterfeits of CSA #4 shows a legitimate scan with four fakes or forgeries, along with their perpetrators, if known. Click on the forgery and go one level deeper and an in depth look at the differences between the real and counterfeit stamps.
Counterfeits and Fakes of Confederate Stamps
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kr.baker/csa/fakes/
Classic Americans
1847usa.com is all about classic American issues. The "Indentification Guide" has many sections with lots of illustrations and charts to sort though the many incarnations of the classic definitive issues, as well as the early commemoratives.
Covered in detail are the following: the 1847 classics, 1869 Pictorials, the Banknotes and Baby Banknotes, the Columbians, the 2d Bureau Series, the Washington-Franklins, and the 1922 - 1931 definitives. Where needed, identification pages go deeper and deeper.
But what really got my attention was the use of the page-linking in the Washington - Franklin Worksheets. Simply put, you identify your stamp's variety simply by clicking your choice, and when you're done, you have correctly ID'd your stamp.
1847 USA
http://1847usa.com
Bureau Second.
The U.S. Second Bureau Issue came along in 1902 and only lasted until 1909, but this early 20th century set is one of the nicest the US Bureau of Printing and Engraving (BEP) ever put out. And if you're not sure, just visit Geoff Dutton's site and see for yourself.
The site covers the stamps and postal history of the U.S. Second Bureau Issue with scans and facts from all the issues, along with covers, mail rates and special situations, such as mail returned for additional postage, etc.
Under Dutton's "The Issue" section, each issue has it's own information page showing the design, listing varieties, common uses, and solo uses. Dutton also has a link to his favorite stamp on cover.
In the "Collections" section of the site, Dutton's postal history of the Second Bureau is arranged by foreign destination, domestic mail and combination covers.
You'll find The U.S. Second Bureau Issue site easy to use, packed with stamps and details.
The U.S. Second Bureau Issue
http://rtt.colorado.edu/~duttong/1902/
Italia
"Italian Stamps 1862-1945," is a beautiful site with stamps grouped by series and each stamp in a series shown in a crisp, enlarged scan, explained with an annotation.
"The Italian Center for Resistance Philately," recounts Italy's resistance movement during World War II, as depicted on Italian stamps.
Italian Stamps 1862-1945
http://www.hist.uib.no/antikk/stamps
The Italian Center for Resistance Philately
http://www.cifr.it
ATM World
ATM's are printed on demand in just about any denomination without a town or date throughout the world for postage. To see how ATM's have proliferated, check out Gregg Ford's "ATM World." It's another easy-to-use, straight-to-the-point, philatelic site that can have you clicking for hours.
ATM World
http://home.tiscalinet.be/ATM-world/
Mauritius
The Classic Stamps of Mauritius site will show you how the 1847 "Post Office" Penny Orange and the Twopence Blue came to be, their philatelic details, and what Mauritius, itself, is all about.
Classic Stamps of Mauritius
http://www.stampsmauritius.com
