Lucian Smeets Explained

Dr. Lucian Smeets was a Belgian stamp forger operating around the early 1900s.

Smeets used a sophisticated method of taking an original stamp with the correct perforations, paper and watermark for the one he wished to forge, fading out the printing and then printing a new design of the desired stamp on the blank.

Among the stamps Smeets is believed to have forged are:

Notes and References

  1. http://www.bwisc.org/Bulletins/b186_200009.pdf "MAIN DISPLAYS AT JOINT BWISC/BCPSG MEETING"