Album weeds : or, How to detect forged stamps (1882)
Earée, R. B · London : Stanley Gibbons · leaf 394
orgers have issued a 5 c., orange-buff, a 1 real, indigo, and 2 reales, green, of exactly the same type as the above. These values, in the originals, are of quite different types. Issue of 1863. 6 Cuartos, vermilion. This is the type with a colon separating the two words CORREOS : INTERIOR. ^… … their ends are pretty nearly level. About three rows of the scaly pattern show between the circle and the frame, under the first i of INTERIOR, and two rows show outside the bottom of the circle, be- tween it and the frame, above the c of franco. Forged. Lithographed, on moderately stout, white…
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