Album weeds : or, How to detect forged stamps (1882)
Earée, R. B · London : Stanley Gibbons · leaf 448
ned paper, exist of all the values, with ordinary numerals only. Of these the 6 c. emerald, 12 c. orange, and 16 c. brown, never existed in such colours as originals, the true colours being as quoted at the head of this paper. Issue of 1866. 2 Cents, rose. All the values of this set differ from… … lowest character touches the inner frame. (I do not speak of the character in the bottom square.) The background of the central oval is composed of vertical rows of chains, very
Postage stamps
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