AtD seal translated Spoiler, pg 84

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Understand that the closest resemblance I've seen to the physical design
of the image on the cover of AtD was a Tibetan Coin, that none of the stamps I've
seen used the Tuvan form of the Tibetan written language, and by the time you 
]get to pg.84 of AtD, you encounter the first of quite a number of deliberately, 
obviously, slap you in the face counterfeit stamps. . . .

'. . . .Cohen smiled, blew his nose.  "You'd be amazed how much you can sell an
honest forgery for. Some collectors specialize in them. The question is, who did 
these? They're atrocious." He flipped the stamp over and with the tip of the 
tweezers showed her. The picture had a Pony Express rider galloping out of a 
western fort. From shrubbery over on the right-hand side and possiably in the 
direction the rider would be heading, protruded a single, painstakingly 
engraved, black feather. "Why put in a deliberate mistake?" he asked, ignoring
---if he saw it---the look on her face. "I've come up with eight in all. Each one 
has an error like this, laborously worked into the design, like a taunt. There's 
even a transposition---U. S. Potsage, of all things." 
COL 49, pg 78


For what it's worth, there is a market for counterfeit Tibetan stamps.

http://www.tibetanpost.com/tpost.php?op=subsection&id=20



 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Carvill John" <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
> Fantastic stuff, Ya Sam. Well done. Not your fault that "it means ...... 
> Tibetan Government
> Chamber of Commerce"!
> 
> I wonder what the writing on the old version of the seal, with the writing 
> all the way around, meant? Same? Different?
> 
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