Nino Imperato, normally known just as N. Imperato, was a stamp forger based in Genoa, Italy in the early 1920s.
Like Francois Fournier, Imperato promoted his forgeries as facsimilies available to the collector at a fraction of the cost of the real thing. His house journal, Il-Fac-simile, went through at least nineteen editions between 1920 and 1922.[1] Amongst other content the journal included two short articles by fellow forger (or distributor of forgeries) Angelo Panelli.
Forgeries were produced of a wide range of stamps, including:[1]
Many other were offered too but it is thought that they had actually been produced years earlier by Erasmo Oneglia of Turin.[1] Robson Lowe and Carl Walske speculate in their book on Ongelia that he retired around 1920[2] and it may be around then that Imperato acquired his stock of Oneglia forgeries.[3]