Forged Handstamp Fig 5.3: Type I Deep purple with too neat and rather thick characters. Fig 5.4: Type I Purple color with thick and almost uniform characters. Short and tight legs on "R". Fig 5.5: Type I Purple. Neat and thin characters making the handstamp rather small. Fig 5.6: Type I Purple with tapered characters, getting smaller from left to right. Fig 5.7: Type II Purple with tapered characters, getting smaller from left to right. Fig 5.8: Type II Purple. Top bar on "T" slant upwards. "C" too open and almost perfect "R". Fig 5.9: Type II Almost identical to Fig. 5.8 except that the characters are thinner and well formed "T". Fig 5.10: Type II Dark purple. Extra thick characters. Long and tapered handstamp, getting thinner from left to right. Fig 5.11: Type II 1 Peso large "COMMONWEALTH" stamp was not handstamped. a Fig 5.12: Type II Stamp with genuine CEBU 1939 postmark and handstamped with inverted "VICTORY" after 1944.