Forged Stamps of Hamburg

The following literature was used in creation of these pages:

• The Serrane Guide to Stamp Forgeries of the World to 1926
• H. Bynof-Smith: Forged Postage Stamps of Europe and Colonies
• R.B. Earée: Album Weeds – How to Detect Forged Stamps, 3rd Edition
• Bohne: German Philatelic Society Reference Manual of Forgeries
• Fritz Billig: Großes Handbuch der Fälschungen
• Hermann Schloss: Distinguishing Characteristics of Classic Stamps: Old German States (1948)
• Michel Specialized 2015 – Vol. I
• Helmut Oppitz: Wissen Schützt vor Schaden, Band I
• Karl Hennig: Philatelische Mitteilungen, No 8, Weimar, August 1925 — “Hamburg-Sondernummer / Bearbeitet, und nach der eigenen Spezialsammlung illustriert von Architekt Ernst Vicenz, Hamburg.”

A common problem among these earlier authors is that the genuine characteristics they describe is not consistent for the different prints/plates that were produced. Their observations (and some observations of the authors) have been summarized on these pages and applied to images of certified stamps in an attempt to weed out inconsistencies.