Childhood and Youth
Jean de Sperati was born 1884 in Pisa, Italy, though he spent a large part of his life in France. As a child in Pisa and later in France, Sperati began to collect stamps. He was particularly interested in printing techniques, as well as photography which was in its infancy at that time. Relatives owned a postcard factory as well as a paper mill. Through this, Jean de Sperati was able to obtain copious knowledge of photographic processes, print technology and chemicals. These formed the basis for his eventual career as a stamp counterfeiter.
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Famous quotes containing the words childhood and youth, childhood and, childhood and/or youth:
“Childhood and youth are vanity.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes 11:10.
“Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
““Come; see the oxen kneel,
“In the lonely barton by yonder coomb
Our childhood used to know,”
I should go with him in the gloom,
Hoping it might be so.”
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