Wolfgang Baldus

Wolfgang Baldus (born 1954) is a German graphic designer, artist, and philatelic writer.

[2] Baldus's first book was the two-volume Schwarze Post (1998), which dealt with the forged and propaganda stamps produced during the wars of the twentieth century.

[3] It was later republished in an extended and revised edition as Postal Warfare: Espionage Forgeries and Propaganda Parodies of Postage Stamps, Postcards, and Letters.

[5][9] In 2006, he published The Postage Stamps of Clipperton Island, a postal history of Clipperton Island in the Pacific, and a description of the local stamps issued in San Francisco in 1895 by the Oceanic Phosphate Company that had a guano business there from 1893 to 1897.

[10][11] In 2006, Baldus was invited to sign the Maurice Williams Roll of Notable Cinderella Philatelists.

A stamp of the Principality of Trinidad , 1893, the subject of one of Baldus's books
Genuine German 1941 Adolf Hitler 12pf stamp and American OSS skull parody stamp, [ 5 ] "futsch" translates as "gone" or "broken" in English
1895 $1 stamp of Clipperton Island