here are 2 commemorative items ... top from posta italia, and the bottom from japan post. both feature similar profile portraits of Edoardo Chiossone. note the incorrect kiku design in posta italia ... genuine is 16 petal
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In Japan, Kotaro Wada was only supplier of copper-plate facsimiles... Maeda Kihei produced all litho-koban - including spiro group. origi... -
THE SPIRO FORGERIES OF JAPANESE STAMPS By Harold E. M. Bradshaw and Varro E. Tyler, Jr. Philatelic forgery, the production of counterfeit po...
