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- 1 2 3 4 Tyler, Varro E. (1991) Philatelic Forgers: Their Lives and Works. Revised edn. Sidney, Ohio: Linn's Stamp News, Amos Press, pp. 108-109.
- ↑ Robson Lowe, The Oswald Schröder Forgeries, 1981.
- ↑ "Forgeries of the Three, Four and Five Pesos values of Buenos Ayres, with some Notes on the Genuine Stamps" by E.D. Bacon C.V.O. in The London Philatelist, Vol. 36, October 1927, No. 430, pp. 232-235.
