 An detailed survey of the then twenty known unused examples was carried out by Gerard Brady and published in the "Irish Stamp News" in 1981.In 2004 a forgery of this stamp was reported in "The Revealer", the journal of the "Éire Philatelic Association", that had been found in the "Maryland forgeries" and offered for sale by a noted collector Roger West of Phoenix International.The forgery is paler than the genuine stamp and the print is coarser, on a white ungummed paper and perforated 10.75 x imperf.