Position 3R5

1¢ Franklin Issue of 1857-61, PLATE 5
Position 3R5

Type Va, Relief A
Issued only perforated.

The Neinken plating diagrams provide very little plating information for this position except a faint blur in the "O" of ONE. See figure 1 below. As more copies are photographed perhaps more definitive plating marks can be uncovered.

Sixteen top row stamps from plate 5 have a blur between ornaments x and y. This "Ornament X/Y blur" occurs on Positions 1L5 to 10L5 and 1R5 to 6R5. It was produced by a bit of foreign matter adhering to the transfer roll. The first position it occurs on, 6R5, shows this feature the strongest. It gradually became weaker with each successive entry, working right to left, until it became very faint on 1L5. Neinken notes this as a plating mark on the plating diagrams for a few positions, namely 2-9-10L5 and 5R5. See Figure 4, below.

Figure 1. (Below) Location of the faint blur as illustrated in the plating diagrams. These two copies do not exhibit this feature.

Figure 2. (Below) To the left of the small unnamed ornament are two small dots surrounded by blur. This is not illustrated in the Neinken plating diagrams.

Figure 3. (Below) A dot to the right of Ornament Q, and a faint near-vertical line to the right of Ornament R. This is not illustrated in the Neinken plating diagrams.

Figure 4. (Below) The mid-image four red arrows indicate the "Ornament X/Y Blur." Sixteen top row stamps from plate 5 have this blur between Ornaments X and Y. This "Ornament X/Y blur" occurs on Positions 1L5 to 10L5 and 1R5 to 6R5. It was produced by a bit of foreign matter adhering to the transfer roll. The first position it occurs on, 6R5, shows it this feature the strongest. It gradually became weaker with each successive entry, working right to left, until it became very faint on 1L5. Top row GUIDE DOT can be seen to the far right.

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