Position 32L4

1¢ Franklin Issue of 1851-1857, PLATE 4
Position 32L4

Blue,
Type III, Relief D
Issued both imperforate (8) and perforated (21).

Courtesy of Joel Doane

Figure 1. (BELOW) A small curl of color below the acanthus of Ornament E. This plating mark appears to not be present in early impressions. Additionally, Neinken illustrates a small dot inside and in beween Ornaments F/G (red arrow) but this plating mark appears also to not be present in early impressions.

Figure 2. (BELOW) A small daiagonal dash of color slightly above and to the left of Ornaments S1 as illustrated in the plating diagram. Not noted in the Neinken plating diagram, is a strong dot of color inside the small unnamed ornament between Ornament A/B.

Figure 3. (BELOW) Early impressions may show a faint left leaning plate scratch in the lower left plume remains. Late impressions appear to have small dots of color in the O of ONE.

Figure 4. (BELOW) Early impression of Position 32L4.
Courtesy of Marc Bedrin.

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