This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ... left-hand ones. The bird's tail is rounded, like that of a partridge. 15 sen, lilac Genuine. Engraved in taille-douce, paper, perforation, etc., as before. The shade is almost invariably a bluish-lilac. The wheel-flower at the top of the stamp has sixteen spokes. The plate-letter is the character "i," before described ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ... left-hand ones. The bird's tail is rounded, like that of a partridge. 15 sen, lilac Genuine. Engraved in taille-douce, paper, perforation, etc., as before. The shade is almost invariably a bluish-lilac. The wheel-flower at the top of the stamp has sixteen spokes. The plate-letter is the character "i," before described, and the head-stroke is not joined to the vertical one. The four flowers whicli separate the English and Japanese values in the ring are like the cornerflowers of the stamps of the previous issue: showing five petals, with the tips of five other petals appearing behind the others. They are nicely and distinctly drawn. In each of the four corners of the stamp, just inside the boundary-line, there is a sort of trident-shaped ornament, and the central stem of each trident points exactly to the corner of the stamp. The inner end of the stem of each trident is finished off with a little ball or knob. Forged. Lithographed, in decidedly reddish-lilac, on very yellowish-white wove paper, ungummed, pin-perforated 13. The wheel-flower at the top of the stamp has eighteen spokes, not very regularly drawn. The plate-letter has its head a long way from the vertical stroke, much farther than in the genuine. The four flowers in the ring round the central circle are very badly done; they look like small representations of the wheel-flower, instead of ornamental flowers of ten petals. The four trident-shaped ornaments in the corners do not point exactly towards their respective corners of the stamp. The right-hand bottom one ends with a cross, the left-hand bottom one with a stroke beyond the ball, and the right-hand top one runs into the outline of the value-label below it. 45 Sen, red. Genuine. Engraved in taille-douce, paper as before, though rat...
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Good. Publication date is approximate as none is provided in book. Softbound book in good condition, some light age-related toning and wear, but still straight and firmly bound.
