Giovanni (Jean) de Sperati: Legendary Philatelic 'Artist'

Criminalia

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True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Millions of people around the world collect, preserve, and trade or sell postage stamps; the hobby, or investment, is known as, philately. The first stamp forgeries began to show up, well, when the first stamps showed up. The Penny Black, the world’s first adhesive stamp, was issued in 1840, and the world’s first forged stamps followed later that year. Stamp collecting has been called, quote, "the hobby of kings and the king of hobbies." And for a time in the early 20th century, a man named Jean de Sperati was king.

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