KINGDOM OF SARDINIA
THE EFFIGIES OF THE IV ISSUE
1855-1863

The author offers a really interesting text helping us to recognize and compare the different types of King Victor Emmanuel II embossed effigies. Study and classification of Sardinia Kingdom IV issue effigies (1855-1863), Kingdom perforated (1862), Sardinia type (1863), the two issues for Naples Provinces (1861). The effigies analysis has been effected through postage stamps macrophotographs which show all the little details not-visible to the naked eye. To simplify research, the number in the «Catalogo Sassone» to which the image refers has been included.

Here is a story of an Italian stamp forger and his engraved forgeries - Erasmo Oneglia, whom history almost let pass unnoticed. One hundred years ago he was perhaps the most prolific forger active. The scope of his forgeries was immense. The most interesting, his engraved forgeries, are listed in detail, illustrated and discussed in this book.
The forgeries include stamps from Australian States, Brazil, british North America, British West Indies, Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, Chle, Greece, Hong Kong, Italian States, Malayan States, Malta, St. Helena, Thailand and the United and Confederate States of America.
The Oneglia story includes a discussion of his interactions with other contemporary forgers and forgeries distributors - Edoardo Spiotti, A. Venturini, Adrien Champion, the brothers of Jean De Sperati and most likely Jean himself, François Fournier, Nino Imperato nad Angelo Panelli.

2004 is the fiftieth anniversary of A.I.E.P. (founded in 1954), which gathers the most important philatelic experts in the whole world.
This book has been published to celebrate the event.
To provide an inside view of the world of philatelic expertising, the handbook looks back at the origin of expertising, and at the subsequent development of the art over the past 140 years.
A Brief History of Philatelic Expertising - The Dienas, A Dynasty of Experts - The History of the A.I.E.P. - Presidents, Vice-Presidents and Secretaries - General Meetings and Round-Table Meetings - Historic List of A.I.E.P. Members, 1954-2004 - A.I.E.P. Membership Statistics - The Statutes of the A.I.E.P. - The A.I.E.P. Certificates - The Hunziker Medal of the A.I.E.P. - The Current Members of the A.I.E.P. - The Affiliate Members of the A.I.E.P. - The Areas of Specialisation - Analytical index

Published by The Royal Philatelic Society London.
The book shows the actual usage of many of the different types of Madame Joseph forged cancellations. It compares genuine usages with the Madame Joseph cancels for the same dates, including the 1935 Silver Jubilee and the Leeward Islands, lists substituted and suppressed dates, and provides an index of Madame Joseph types.
The cancel reproductions on forty transparent overlays can be used on top of a postmark for comparison to help both collectors and dealers in the identification of the forgeries.

Forgeries of the XX century: stamps, overprints, surtax, precancels, commemorative stamps, miniature sheets, British intelligence and French resistance forgeries of WWII, postal forgeries. Appendix: forgeries of XIX century stamps of metropolitan France.

3 volumes:
Vol.I ROMAN STATES FORGERIES, The Issue of 1852 + 1990 Supplement incl.;
Vol.II ROMAN STATES FORGERIES, The Issue of 1867-1868;
Vol.III ROMAN STATES ESSAYS AND REPRINTS The Issues of 1867-1870

In volume I and II the forgeries are grouped by denomination of the stamps. In enlarged size both a particular forgery and the genuine stamp are illustrated, and major differences are listed. Paper and ink colours are included.
Volume III presents essays and reprints with reproduction of full sheets and descriptions of the various impressions.

ITALIAN STATES
ORIGINALS AND FORGERIES

The compendium of some studies on the subject to help, in an easy and clear way, to understand, and identify, the main differences between original issues and forgeries. The postage stamps of the Old Italian States are reproduced and examined one by one with the list of their characteristics, for both originals and forgeries.
At the beginning of the volume, there are two short introductions about the typographic cliché and the most famous forgers. At the beginning of the chapters devoted to the different States, there is a short postal-historical introduction.
Hundreds of colour reproductions.