Rare items are normally examined to proof their authenticity. This can be done by examinators which are named by the national societies or by other experts like specialized dealers. The examined item is signed and a certificate with a description is added. On this page you hopefully will find on the long run the signatures (either small marks or handwritten) of examinators, experts, and well-known collectors from long-time-ago to nowadays. These signatures were added on the reverse of examined stamps or on the front of covers. Nowadays they are used in addition to certificates with photographs.
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Dr. R. J. Ceresa |
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Agathon Karlovich Fabergé (1876 - 1951), St. Petersburg and Helsinki |
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Dr. Paul Jem(tschouin), also spelled Jemchurin or Jemtschurin, he died a few years ago, Bronxville (USA) |
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Zbigniew Mikulski (1925 - ), St. Gallen, Switzerland |
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Waldemar Pohl (1903 - 1969), Bamberg, Germany |
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Romeko, Paris A stamp company founded by Serge Rockling (1893 - 1975, Tiflis, Paris) and situated in Paris since 1922. |
I would be glad if you could send me scans of the signatures of other examinators (600dpi jpg file with 20% compression, resulting in ~10K files).
Thanks to G. Kock for giving me the possibility to show these signatures. The webpage of G. Kock lists the signatures of experts worldwide. A great source for people interested in the bibliography of famous philatelists of the field of Russian philately is Kuhn M.; Facts on Russian philately. 3rd edition Bamberg, 2007 : Russian collecting areas, literature, auction catalogues, journals and their development, biographical notes on philatelists. It can be bought from Philabooks for Euro 37.50
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