Album weeds : or, How to detect forged stamps (1882)
Earée, R. B · London : Stanley Gibbons · leaf 281
d by having seventeen spokes to the wheel- ornament, iH|Pad of sixteen. The veins of the broad leaves of the left-hand branch •i^o not go near the sides of the leaves, being much too short. The lower cross-stroke of the top Japanese word in the left-hand fram^ is very much longer than the… … project equally from behind the little square which contains the " syllabic character." The upper Japanese word in the central column, just under the wheel-ornament, consists of two characters placed close together. The colour of the stamp appears to be almost invariably a dark blue, of a more or…
Postage stamps
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