Album weeds : or, How to detect forged stamps (1882)
Earée, R. B · London : Stanley Gibbons · leaf 24
ety of postmarks. T have seen CERTIF in very large letters, being, I suppose, part of the word " certificado." I have also another with a double circle, with name and date ; and another with a single thick circle, struck in blue, with thick lettering ; another of my copies bears a large diamond of… … Genuine. Very finely engraved in taille-douce ; machine-perforated 13. Forged. Very badly lithographed ; pin-pricked Idh ; colours chalky. I saw some forgeries of this set as above a few months ago ; but they were really so extremely bad that I did not think it worth while to take note of their…
Postage stamps
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