(Scott #8 Genuine)
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(Scott #8 Forgery A)
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Genuine |
Forgery A |
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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.
The right lower ray of the dark star in the rose is too short, so that it does not touch the turned-over outline of the petal. The front-view thistle shows twenty points. The apostrophe in JOHN'S is a fat-headed comma, as before. The inner scallops of the name-oval, under the letters NEW, are no further off the outline of the bouquet-oval than any of the others are. There are no faults or flaws in the design anywhere.
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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) |