A lawyer writes: Philatelist’s fight highlights the issue of authorative bodies and their judgments
In 2006 a well-known philatelist submitted three important penny red stamps on cover to the Royal Philatelic Society (‘RPSL’) for an opinion on authenticity. The response came that they had been ‘faked’. The process was repeated in 2014 and the same reply received.
The philatelist, Abed Najjar, was so convinced as to the authenticity of the stamps involved that …