1¢ Franklin Issue of 1857 Plate 10 Intro

1¢ Franklin Issue of 1857-1861, PLATE 10
Plate 10 Introduction and Characteristics

Not Feeling Scratched Up
This plate lacks the dramatic scatches found on the earlier Type V plates. Plate 10 shows very few individual plate characteristics. Very little traces were left of the relief mottles, and the plate exhibits few polishing scatches or lines, varieties that were prominent on the preceding plates.

Seeing Double
Plate 10 had only one minor double transfer, but it is so small (According to Neinken) that he felt it not worthy of listing. In fact he never reveals it's position, as it only appears in the earliest of impressions.

Center Line
Plate 10 had no center line, it being one of the two plates of the total of 12 which were so made. Instead of a dividing line to seperate the two panes, a mark was made on the plate as a guide for seperating the sheets of stamps. This mark was placed between the tops of 10L and 1R10 and a similar mark was placed between 100L and 91R10. The two panes were very close together, the stamps of the left pane being only 3.5 mm from those of the right pane.

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Update 1/19/08