Album weeds : or, How to detect forged stamps (1882)
Earée, R. B · London : Stanley Gibbons · leaf 361
stmarTcs. Genuine. Usually parallel lines with numerals in the centre. Forged. An oval, formed by three straight lines at top and bottom, and two curved lines each side, with something undecipherable in the middle. Issue of 1868. 6d., green. Of this issue I have only seen the 6d. forged, same type… … which contain the figures of value. The orb and the cross pattee on the top of the crown are quite distinct. The two leaves of the rose are shaded nearly all over, and, if the stamp be held with the rose uppermost, the left-hand leaf runs up into one of the star-points. Forged. Poorly lithographed,…
Postage stamps
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