STAMP FAKER SENT TO PRISON
PARIS, May 1
He had as much right to make sham stamps as others had to make sham period furniture, argued a Paris stamp ] dealer charged here with having swindled collectors. The dealer was Jean Sperati, self- ■ styled “art philatelist,” and the action ! against him was brought by the Stamp Dealers’ Association, which complained that Sperati fakes were so good that many experts could not detect them from genuine stamps. The evidence 'showed that, although Sperati . signed his fake stamps (to show that they were fakes), he did not use indelible ink". Thus buyers could erase the signature and sell the stamps as genuine. Despite Sperati’s plea, the court decided he was a swindler and sent him to gaol for a year.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22655, 4 June 1948, Page 6
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127STAMP FAKER SENT TO PRISON Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22655, 4 June 1948, Page 6
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