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Color, Paper, and Printing Varieties










                                                   Photographic Forgery
                                                          of Plate 9





















                                                  Philatelic forgery printed on
                                               photographic paper with faked red
                                                Maltese Crosses and “impressed”
                                                      watermark pattern.


                                               One such sheet is believed to have
                                                   been created in the 1920s.



















                           Faked Maltese Cross                                 Faked watermark



                                                                               “Fuzzy” impression from
                                                                               grain of photographic paper



                                                       400% actual size













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