Genuine

Forgery D

The bouquet of floral emblems in the center does not touch the outline of the white containing-circle and,where Four out of the five rays of the dark star in the center of the rose are prolonged till they touch the dark outlines of the turned-over- petals outside them, but the upper ray only touches the shading of the turned-over petal above it.

The six shamrock-leaves are all light, with very little shading on them.

The crescent-shaped piece of engine-turning, just above the flowers, contains very light, interlaced lines, above which, at the bow of the crescent, are three curved lines. This engine-turning does not show any chain pattern of dark diamonds. The crescent below the flowers is very like the other, but the bowed part shows only two curved lines below the engine-turning.

The engraver’s tool has not slipped anywhere, so that there are no flaws or scratches in any part of the design.

There is a fat-headed apostrophe in JOHN'S.

The scalloped outlines of the engine turning in the oval ring containing the name do not touch either outer or inner outline of the oval anywhere.

The lower half of this engine-turned oval, i.e., between ST JOHN'S NEWFOUNDLAND and POSTAGE, shows seventeen transverse rows of white diamonds, three in each row. They are all, as nearly as possible, of equal shape and size.

The pearls which separate the 2 in each of the upper corners from the rest of the design are very regular, and very lightly shaded by a faint, semicircular line in each pearl.. 

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Bibliography

Album Weeds by Rev. R. B. Earee

The Serrane Guide by Fernand Serrane

The Forged Stamps of all Countries by J. Dorn