(Scott #7 Genuine)
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(Scott #7 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.
What appeared to be the body of the thistle in the genuine TWOPENCE looks, in this value, like a front view of a second thistle, with fourteen points round it. The front shamrock has three light veins, one going up each lobe of the leaf. The stem of the thistle and the stem of the rose are quite distinct, side by side, at the bottom of the bouquet. The A of POSTAGE is no taller than the T. The apostrophe in JOHN'S is a fat-headed comma, as before. There are no flaws or scratches anywhere in the design.
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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) |