Album weeds : or, How to detect forged stamps (1882)
Earée, R. B · London : Stanley Gibbons · leaf 264
252 ALBUM WEEDS j OR, shows that the design, though a tolerably close copy of the genuine, is ragged and indistinct ; very different from the clear epargne engraving of the originals. Genuine. … cross pattee or the shamrock ; and the shamrock itself has vein-marks in its leaves. The queen's nose is Roman ; the ear does not show much ; and the place where the hair begins on the back of the neck is easy to be seen. The thick, shaded place where the neck is sup- posed to be cut off is very…
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