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In the early 1990s, the retired stamp dealer Derek
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The trade was very profitable, with the changed stamps being sold to dealers for resale to their customers. It has been said that the fake cancels were also hired out to unscrupulous dealers for them to manufacture their own fine used stamps; however, that has been disputed by the postal historian
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British Commonwealth stamps, and it is believed that there are probably additional fake cancels that have yet to be discovered. The wooden cancels were thought to have been made in France, while the
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Known as "Madame Joseph" because she went by the surname Joseph and was possibly French or
Belgian (her first name is unknown), Joseph, her accomplices and successors used fake handstamps to turn common unused stamps into more valuable used ones. Some fake cachets,
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Recently the name Eric David Bowie (b. 1900) – City Stamp Shop, 1 St. Swithin's Lane, London EC4, was noted on a newsletter 1 May 1937 advertising
Coronation stamps. Bowie was prosecuted for forgery of Silver Jubilee, on the insistence of
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reference collection and they appear to have previously been folded, so as to possibly make a booklet of samples. The latest date of any of these cancels is 28 August 1915 for
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