Album weeds : or, How to detect forged stamps (1882)
Earée, R. B · London : Stanley Gibbons · leaf 291
n away where it touches the strap which bears the value ; the centre of the said buckle is shaded with ten coarse, uncrossed lines. The space between the garter and the strap is white. All the little leaves in the ornamental scroll-work outside the garter are solid, except about three, which show… … copies, the little leaves of the ornamental scroll-work outside tlie garter are all outlined, with white centres. Machine-perforated 11, 12|, or badly and irregularly pin-pricked. Forged, Poorly lithographed, on thin, common, yellowish -white wove paper ; ungummed ; badly pin-pricked 13, The…
Postage stamps
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