Lucian Smeets
Belgian stamp forger (before 1890 - ?)
About Lucian Smeets
Born 1890. Lucian Smeets was a Belgian stamp forger.
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: British Solomon Islands Protectorate canoe stamps. British Victorian stamps. Serbian stamps of 1901 and 1904.
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Who was Lucian Smeets?
Belgian stamp forger (before 1890 - ?)
When was Lucian Smeets born?
Lucian Smeets was born in 1890.
What was Lucian Smeets's occupation?
Lucian Smeets was a stamp forger.
What nationality was Lucian Smeets?
Lucian Smeets was Belgian.
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