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KUWAIT KUWAIT
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Two type varieties have been seen on the Rupee values of the
Service set (sheet position not known). On one the first ‘E’ of SERVICE
has a wafer thin upright (seen on R1 and Rsl5); and on the other the
4WA’ of KUWAIT are both damaged at the top, and the top curve of the
4S’ of SERVICE is damaged (seen on Rs2 and Rsl 5).

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Dangerous forgeries exist on all values of the Ordinary set: they
were usually done on used copies of the unoverprinted Indian stamps,
and an alien postmark will often give a clue to a forgery. The forged
overprints on the Anna values were apparently positioned through a
mask, and surplus ink was almost always shed on to the perforations at
left or right. Quite fortuitously, one of the forgers of the overprint on
the Rupee values took, as his sample, a genuine stamp from Row 1/1 —
so his forgeries also show the same characteristic damage to ‘K’ and ‘A’!
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