poor design corners and 14 petal kiku
corner designs poor, oval too wide
17 petal kiku
publishers improvised designs, lacking true copies
The Koban Study Group 小判
2014-10-18
2014-09-23
2014-08-03
MAEDA 50sen M2 /w nijumaru ...
maeda kihei screened from woodblock
normally the 50 is shaded more to L
this is better print
2014-03-07
5 sen brown ... fake or genuine
a rather crude design /w many breaks and lack of detail
3 strike cancels
comments ?
2 sen rose ... fake or genuine
the frame lines and background are irregular. a partial tonbo marks appears in SWC.
any comments ?
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