Lucian Smeets

right|thumb|A British 9d stamp possibly forged by Smeets.<ref name=DOB>{{Cite web |url=http://brouwerphilatelist.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage-ask.tpl&product_id=104&category_id=36&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=4&vmcchk=1&Itemid=4 |title=1883-84 9d dull green SG195 FORGERY, D.O. Brouwer Philatelist, 10 July 2012. |access-date=10 July 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240526020102/https://www.webcitation.org/693AWXaKE?url=http://brouwerphilatelist.com/index.php%3Fpage=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage-ask.tpl&product_id=104&category_id=36&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=4&vmcchk=1&Itemid=4 |archive-date=26 May 2024 |url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref name=DOB/> *Nevis.<ref>[http://www.bwisc.org/Bulletins/b186_200009.pdf "MAIN DISPLAYS AT JOINT BWISC/BCPSG MEETING"] in British West Indies Study Circle ''Bulletin'', No. 186, September 2000, pp. 62-63. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120710035828/http://www.bwisc.org/Bulletins/b186_200009.pdf Archived here.]</ref> *Serbian stamps of 1901 and 1904.

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