Album weeds : or, How to detect forged stamps (1882)
Earée, R. B · London : Stanley Gibbons · leaf 303
291 HOW TO DETECT FORGED STAMPS. Postmarks. Genuine and forged alike bear a set of parallel bars, wide apart ; but the genuine are usually found uncancelled, and the forgeries postmarked. Issue of ISSi. 1^ Schilling, brown. Genuine. Lithographed on stout, white wove paper. The easiest test is that… … said leg on the right side of the stamp points downwards obliquely, almost towards the g of schilling. Forged. Lithographed on extremely thin, white wove paper. The fraction- line of the J on the left-hand side of the stamp is much lower than the corresponding line on the other side ; and a line…
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