The latest volume in the popular FFE series of journals. Articles in this year's edition have been contributed by 30 authors, including Alan Huggins, Jun Ichi Matsumoto, Carl Walske, Trevor I Harris, Harry v. Hofmann, Jean-Francoiş Brun, Robin Gwynn, Robert P Odenweller, Chris Harman, and Michèle Chauvet. Subjects covered include engraved forgeries of Sicily, the Prosser fantasies, the Ecuador Seebeck 1894 reprinted card, Belgium and France mixed frankings, Great Britain postal stationery fakes, Brazilian fakes and forgeries, the Lowden forgery, modern British stamp forgeries, and the fight against fakes and forgeries on the internet. Illustrated in colour.
Philatelic Exporter review, courtesy of David Rennie (June 2010):
It is almost twelve years since the first issue of this respected journal appeared, and Knud Mohr in his Foreword reveals that there have been 469 articles written by some 370 different authors, three of whom, who wrote articles in the first issue, again write articles in this one. There are no less than nine first-time contributors to this volume.
The spread of interest is one of the key factors in the success of this journal, dealing as it does with stamps, postal stationery, postal history, postmarks, and does not shy away from modern fakes and forgeries.
In this issue GB is well catered for with articles about the Blue-paper Victorian high values, the EVII £1 "Lowden" forgeries, Medicine Tax items, and the modern Machin 24p, 2nd (class) forgeries including booklet items.
Further afield are articles about Faroes surcharges, Sicily "Bombas" , Brazil, Norway 1975-forgeries FDCs, Portugal 1926-28 Independence issues, Ecuador 1894 card, Philippines 5c & 10c of 1858-1862, Newfoundland 1933 Balbo items, and Hamburg.
This issue also contains full Subject and Author indexes to all 13 issues, and also a list of AIEP Members with their addresses and specialists.
The web site is well worth a visit since it repeats the Indexes, and provides short illustrated synopsis of the published articles issue by issue.