Since publishing his first article on philatelic forgeries in the late 1970s,

Pugh has become one of Canada’s most prominent experts on fakes and

forgeries from around the world.

 

He’s the author of 36 books in his series on the fakes and forgeries of British North America and Canada as well as five books on Buenos Aires and others on Uruguay, Serbia and the Belgian Congo.

 

 

Each book is between 50 and 150 pages, making for nearly 4,000 pages of reference material on philatelic fakes and forgeries from the world over.