Album weeds : or, How to detect forged stamps (1882)
Earée, R. B · London : Stanley Gibbons · leaf 374
362 ALBUM weeds; OR, OEANGE FEEE STATE. Issue of 1868. Id., 6d., Is. Genuine. Engraved in epargne, on thin, slightly surfaced, white wove paper ; perforated 14. There are seventy-nine horizontal lines of shading behind the tree, &c., and, though the uppermost line is very close to the thick outline… … horizontal lines. The n and J of oranje do not touch each other, and the stop after staat is large. There is an equal breadth of white space between the horizontal lines and each of the side frames ; i.e., the central lines do not reach entirely from side to side of the central rectangle, but leave…
Postage stamps
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