Album weeds : or, How to detect forged stamps (1882)
Earée, R. B · London : Stanley Gibbons · leaf 336
324 ALBUM weeds; OR, upright also. Crown very nicely drawn, with its middle arch stand- ing on a pattee. There is a fimr-de-hjs on each side of the said cross. The octagonal outline round … the frame is of dark lines on a white ground. All the dark lines of the design stand up well from the surface of the paper, so that the thickness of the ink can be felt as well as seen. Forged. Lithographed on thin, white wove paper, without any blue tint. If the stamp be placed diamond-wise, with…
Postage stamps
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