for Sale There is shortly to be sold in London the most notable stamp forgery which the history of our Post Office has on record.
It is a copy of the "Stock Exchange Shilling" stamp states "The Observer."
These forgeries were pieced on sale at the Stock Exchange post office, and were mainly used to prepay the cost of telegrams, and were on sale for nearly two years, during 1871-72.
The fact that such wholesale for-gory was being carried on remained undiscovered for nearly a quarter of a century after the last was sold, and the discovery was eventually made, not by. a lynx-eyed official, but by a London stamp dealer, Mr. Charles Nissen, of High Holborn.
These green stamps had two white letters in the top corners, which appeared in reverse order in the bottom corners, In the top corners the first letter indicated the row from which the stamp had been taken, and the second letter its position in that row.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.