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FEPA Certificates of Appreciation 2022
Following its meeting on 28th April, the FEPA Board is delighted to announce the names of the Philatelic Societies awarded with the FEPA Certificate of Appreciation 2022.
The announcement of the FEPA Medals 2022 is due in May.
Jean de Sperati: The Stamp Forger that Fooled the Experts
A 30-minute video by Graham Beck on his @ExploringStamps YouTube Channel is all anybody needs to learn about the life and works of a philatelic legend who never called himself a forger. Instead, he called himself an artist.
Graham talks first with British actor and philatelist Samuel West, who believes that Sperati “was not fooling people, but debunking the experts. He wanted experts to be better at what they did”. Samuel revealed what the trigger event was that changed Sperati’s life. In addition, he supplied details on his background, family influences, and much more.
The video was prepared on the occasion of the announcement of last December’s auction, “The ‘Art of Sperati’ Collection”, by David Feldman International Auctioneers. Devlan Kruck, and Ricky Verra, both from David Feldman, were Graham’s next guests. They described specific Sperati items offered at the auction, discussed the collectors’ interest in forgeries, etc.
The video is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh7Fb7c_KrM
Phila Historica magazine No. 1/2023 available to download
Phila Historica is a magazine for philatelic history and philatelic literature. It is offered online, in pdf format, and free of charge to all interested parties. It is produced four times annually by Phil*Creativ GmbH, under the editorship of Wolfgang Maassen RDP FRPSL.
The magazine was first released in March 2013, which means that the current issue (1/2023) is the first in the magazine’s second decade. The 255-page latest issue carries articles by Wolfgang Maassen, Bernard Lissorgues, Jan Kindler, Torsten Berndt, Dr Winfried Leist, Dr Marc Kessler, Elmar Vogt, Wolfgang Schneider, and Abhishek Bhuwalka.
The latest and all four issues of 2022 are available to download at: https://www.phil-shop.de/Phila-Historica:::42.html
Details on how to receive the earlier issues (1/2013 to 4/2021) on a USB stick are found on the same webpage.