Genuine

Forgery D

Engraved in taille-douce; paper and color-varieties as above.

The front-view thistle shows twenty-two points or petals, and its stem is darkly shaded, where it passes behind the stems of the rose and rose-leaf.

There is a semicircular row of diamond-shaped white spots, not very prominent, in the engine-turning above the bouquet-circle ; and between and above the last two diamonds to the right, under the OU of NEWFOUNDLAND, there is a tiny, triangular white spot, caused by the leaving out of one of the little lines of the engine-turning. This spot would not be noticed without the microscope.

The apostrophe in JOHN'S is a fat-headed comma, as before.

Each side of the 1 in each of the upper corners there' is a two-leaved ornament, with a small, almost invisible dark ball at the stem end.

The shamrock-leaves have a good deal of shading in them in the orange-vermilion issue ; but in the later ones, especially the lake-red, the shading has almost entirely disappeared.

There is a thin, dark line in each of the letters Of POSTAGE, following its curves. These lines, by the way, are 7iery faint in the lake-red issue, though visible in the microscope.

All the rays of the dark star in the center of the rose touch the turned-over outlines of the petals.

There are no flaws anywhere in the design, except the tiny white spot before mentioned.

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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