cinderella
n.— «He even has the only two stamps issued on Kasturba Gandhi, Gandhi’s wife, in 1964 and 1996. And if that is not enough, he also has Cinderella, a term for fake stamps from around the world which have never been issued officially by the postal department.» —“Gandhi is ‘stamp-ed’ all over his collection” by Azera Rahman India eNews Feb. 26, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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