Album weeds : or, How to detect forged stamps (1882)
Earée, R. B · London : Stanley Gibbons · leaf 225
ks. The genuine stamps bear either a very large star struck in black ink, or an oblong postmark, which contains name and numerals. The counterfeits bear either seventeen oblique parallel lines, forming an oval, or else a large square of square dots. I think this forgery is good enough to deceive a… … and cheaper style of epargne, after printing the penny and two- pence values in the higher style of taille-douce for nearly forty years ; so that a retrograde movement does not necessarily imply falsity.
Postage stamps
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