Royal Philatelic Society (Great Britain) · London : The Royal Philatelic Society · leaf 206
of the sheets printed in four horizontal rows, which would necessarily have to be made before "specimen" could be applied to the centre stamps. I wrote and asked Mr. Luard to make an examination of the stamping machine, which, as stated in my previous paper, has since been serving the modest post… … illustration has been taken. There seems to me no doubt whatever that Baron A. de Reuterskiold's explanation of how the word " specimen " was stamped on the sheets is perfectly correct. And I think, further, that this fact shows the reason for altering the arrangement of the stamps on the sheets…
