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Auction: 173 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 509

German States significant fakes & forgeries reference collection, in two albums filled with over 550 items, accompanied by extensive typed annotations explaining methods of identifying genuine examples from forgeries and reprints, with inserts from relevant reference works as well as photographic enlargements of both fake and genuine stamps for comparison, including stamps of Baden, Bavaria, Bergdorf, Braunschweig, Bremen, Alsace-Lorraine, Hamburg, Hannover, Lubeck, the North German Confederation, Oldenburg, Saxony, Thurn & Taxis, and Wurttemburg, a fine and exceptional reference for the student of German philately that would be extremely challenging to duplicate.

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