FORGERIES TURKEY OVERPRINTS 1879-1911 STIEDL BILLIG * REPRINT

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Otto E. Stiedl and Fritz Billig

TURKEI II AUFDRUCK FAELSCHUNGEN 1879-1911 ***

Original Publisher: Billig, Vienna, 1937.

Recent reprint in larger size, with some improvements to the illustrations
In German; paperback, 64 illustrations showing blown-up characteristics of forgeries, 21 pages

Useful guide to forgeries of overprints of the years between 1879 and 1911 with enlarged black & white photo illustrations of forged and genuine overprints; also some “invented” overprints (phantasie…as Billig called them)

THIS RESEARCH IS STILL VERY USEFUL TO THE COLLECTOR WHO NEEDS TO WEED OUT THE BAD OVERPRINTS * KNOWLEDGE OF GERMAN IS NOT ESSENTIAL BECAUSE WITH AN INTERNET TRANSLATOR (ie BABEL FISH) YOU CAN TRANSLATE THE FEW ESSENTIAL TERMS YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE CLUES THAT DISTINGUISH GENUINE FROM FORGERY

LIMITED EDITION

EXPECT: Research that was compiled in 1937

EXPECT: Good production with printing quality based on an original that was produced 75 years ago

DO NOT EXPECT 2011 photography, or state-of-the-art typographical and lay-out quality in a reprint of a 1937 monograph

BEING THE EARLIEST DETAILED RESEARCH ON THE SUBJECT MATTER, THE VALUE OF THIS BOOKLET IS ESSENTIALLY ITS GREAT BIBLIOGRAPHIC RELEVANCE

LIMITED EDITION *** NOT TO BE MISSED!!!

ESSENTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE FOR THE SERIOUS COLLECTOR

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