From: Richard Wordingham (richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com)
Date: Tue Feb 14 2006 - 02:23:21 CST
Richard Wordingham hastily wrote:
>> Unidentified script at the right vertical scroll of this postage stamp
>> issued by British North Borneo (an entity which existed in 1881-1963):
>> < http://naxum.tripod.com/heraldry/32nb.jpg >. What is it?
>
> Are you sure there is writing? I see no sign of writing in the very
> similar 24c stamp at
> http://www.jaysmith.com/Specials/World/World-British-Commonwealth-North-Borneo-Stamps.html .
In the similar endorsed one dollar stamps, the value, so I deduce, is
recorded in Arabic on the viewer's left and in Chinese on the viewer's
right. (Source:
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/British%20North%20Borneo ) These
may be what you have taken to be scrolls. (I suppose it could actually be
Malay in Arabic script rather than Arabic)
Richard.
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