Lot 2100
1909, 13¢ blue green, bluish paper (365), right sheet margin imprint and plate number 4946 strip of three. Original gum, lightly hinged. Tiny thin spot in upper left corner. Otherwise Fine and fresh. Featured in a front page article in the October 18, 2004 issue of Linn’s Stamp News,.
Estimate 10,000 - 15,000
A UNIQUE STRIP — THE FIRST, AND SO FAR ONLY, 13¢ BLUISH PAPER RECORDED WITH THIS PLATE NUMBER.
Expertization: 2004 P.F. Certificate.
The flat plate stamps of the period were printed on a four-station flat bed press that utilized four plates at a time. The United States Stamp Society’s B.I.A. Plate Number Checklist, Plates 1-20,000 indicates that plate numbers 4942, 4945, 4946 and 4948 were used to print the 13¢ bluish paper, but until the discovery of this strip, just last year, only plate numbers 4942, 4945 and 4948 had ever been seen.
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