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Maassen, W., Real or fake? Forgeries and forgers in philately, in collaboration with Wilhelm van Loo, Guide for stamp collectors, Volume 3, 2003, out of print, here again an antiquarian copy, very well preserved! Reference work on the subject of forgeries, 342 pages, with numerous illustrations, some in color. Contains chapters on forgeries that harm the postal service or collectors, propaganda forgeries, fantasy products, partial forgeries and forgeries, testing in Germany, famous German and international forgers, forgery techniques in the past and today, basics of forgery detection such as printing processes, types of paper, colors, technical aids and literature. In the appendix there is a very helpful 70-page forgery lexicon with numerous example images of common types of forgeries and manipulations, this part completely in color. #45303