FAKE STAMP SWINDLER SENT TO GAOL
(10 a.m.) LONDON, April 27. A Paris court sentenced the selfstyled “art philatelist,’’ Jean Sperati, to one year’s imprisonment for swindling collectors with fake stamps. The court alleged that, although Sperati signed his fake stamps, he did not so do in indelible ink so that buyers could erase the signature and sell the stamps as genuine. Sperati argued that he had just as much right to make sham stamps as others to make sham period furniture. The Paris Stamp Dealers’ Association had brought the action because the Sperati fakes were so good that experts could not detect them from genuine stamps.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22623, 28 April 1948, Page 5
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107FAKE STAMP SWINDLER SENT TO GAOL Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22623, 28 April 1948, Page 5
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