(Scott #20 Genuine)
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(Scott #6 Forgery D)
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Genuine |
Forgery D |
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Finely engraved in taille-douce, in orange-red, scarlet-vermilion, dull rose-red, or dull lake-red, on thick, or thinnish, rough, grey-white, white, or yellowish-white wove paper.
There are no flaws or scratches anywhere in the design. The stop under the little T of ST is large and round. The scalloped, inner outline of the name-oval is extremely (and equally) close to the outline of the bouquet-oval all the way round; so that, without the aid of the microscope, all the scallops seem to touch the outline. The two shamrocks are very lightly shaded. The solid label containing the name is very dark, in comparison with the engine-turning surrounding it. The apostrophe in JOHN'S is a fat-headed comma. There is a distinct and broad white ring round each 6. What looked like the body of the thistle in the other values appears here to be the tuft of another thistle, facing the spectator. In the lower half of the name-oval there are seventeen pairs of white dashes, with a white dot each side of each pair, between the S of ST and the last letter of NEWFOUNDLAND.
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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 |
| Compiled by Bill Claghorn (July 16, 2000) |