EXPLOITING STAMP BUYERS
Tho business of forging • postago stamps flourishes in Cenera! America as nowhere else according to Mr. G. W. Bentley, who spoke at' tho Philatelic Congress at Manchester, says tho London "Moniing Post." At one time, he stated, the. inhabitants of theso lands •had no interest in-stamps, but when tho value of. stamps" from .'some of the countries there began to rise, there was a philatelic awakening,. "The patriotic -Peruvian Government,". Mr. Brentley continued, "was over-printing its stamps with the arms, of Chile and. postmarking them with a false post-mark dated'lß9s, although tho Chileans had left that city moro than eleven years previously; Almost the only thing to he said in favour of collecting the stamps of the British Empire (at any vate after 1890) is that forgeries are few in number and fairly easy to detect," he declared. "Yet, have we not Heligoland and aro there not tho Indian native States'? We can even collect forgeries imperially if we are so minded." .
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 35, 10 August 1934, Page 3
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