Album weeds : or, How to detect forged stamps (1882)
Earée, R. B · London : Stanley Gibbons · leaf 569
f the containing-label ; and the stop after the word is much nearer to the G than to the end of the label. The F of freimarke has no tongue sticking out of the right side, so that it looks like a German J rather than the German f. The K of this word is a hybrid between a t and an I, but it is… … Forged. Tests the same as for the forged 1 kreuzer, except that the o after VERTRAG has a large piece broken out of it to the left of the top. The oblique side-stroke to the 1 of 18 is very thick, and without any curve in it.
Postage stamps
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