Album weeds : or, How to detect forged stamps (1882)
Earée, R. B · London : Stanley Gibbons · leaf 343
331 HOW TO DETECT FORGED STAMPS. at the edges with dark colour, which makes them stand out from … in the loop between the back and the end of the tail. First Forgery. Lithographed on poor, thinnish, very white wove paper, badly perforated 12^. All the labels are solid, and the letters and figures look perfectly flat. The whole stamp is very coarsely executed ; the white of the fish's eye is…
Postage stamps
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