Robert Brisco Earée

Robert Brisco Earée (1846–1928) was an English priest and philatelist who was known for his studies of philatelic fakes and forgeries.

He was ordained as a priest in 1871 and was appointed as curate at Coggeshall, Essex, in the same year.

[3] While British chaplain in Berlin in the 1880s, Earée was responsible for raising a fund for a new church dedicated to St George.

[6] Earée followed W. Dudley Atlee and Edward Loines Pemberton as the author of a series of articles, The Spud Papers, describing forgeries which appeared in various publications between 1871 and 1881 before being published in book form in 1952.

Earée is best known for the classic work Album Weeds; or, How to Detect Forged Stamps, which went through three editions, numerous reprints, and is still regarded as one of the best all world guides to earlier forgeries and fakes ever produced.