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1918-22 Washington-Franklin issues

Offset printings, Perforated 11

Scott 525, 1¢, Plate Number 9489 T

Scott 525, 1¢, Plate Number 10015 R

For unknown reasons, the plate number was manually entered for this plate.  If you have additional information on this topic, please contact the Webmaster using the link at the bottom of this page.

Scott 525 var, 1¢, misperfed through center of stamp, Plate Number 9679 R

Scott 525 var, 1¢ used, imperf at bottom due to foldover, Plate Number 9679 R

Scott 526, 2¢ Type IV, Plate Number 10840 R

Scott 526 var, 2¢ Type IV, "ghost" Plate Number 10873 B

Scott 526 var, 2¢ Type IV, showing both actual and "partial ghost" Plate Number 10854 B

Scott 526 var, 2¢ Type IV, showing both actual and four "ghosts" of Plate Number 10826 in a bottom strip of 5 photographically cropped from a plate block of 12

Scott 526 var, 2¢ Type IV, variety showing gash in forehead, Plate Number 10862 T

Scott 527, 2¢ Type V, Plate Number 11202 B

Scott 527 var, 2¢ Type V, miscut to include bottom plate number of upper sheet, photographically cropped from a larger strip, Plate Number 11203 T

Scott 528, 2¢ Type Va, Plate Number 11370 T

Scott 528 var, 2¢ Type Va, Plate Number 11333 T with manuscript initials

Beginning with plate 11329 in May 1920, initials began to reappear on Washington-Franklin issues.  Initials had previously appeared only on flat plat printings, but Otto A. Myers (OAM) inscribed his initials directly above the left top plate number of several offset plates.  Through July 1920, various printers' initials were intermittently inscribed on 30 or more different plates that were used to produce Scott 528 and 528A (perforated) and 534 (imperforate).

Scott 528 var, 2¢ Type Va, "2 C R NTS" variety, Plate Number 12142 T

Scott 528A, 2¢ Type VI, Plate Number 11703 B

Scott 528A var, 2¢ Type VI, Plate Number 11717 L with additional 1 manually entered

Scott 528A var, 2¢ Type VI, Plate Number 11606 R with initials "W. B." manually entered, photographically cropped from a plate block of 6

Scott 528B, 2¢ Type VII, Plate Number 12683 B

Scott 528B, 2¢ Type VII, underinked, particularly at top left, Plate Number 12297 T

Scott 529, 3¢ Type III, Plate Number 8637 T

    Scott 529, 3¢ Type III, Plate Number 8375

For some reason, for this plate, the plate numbers were not placed in their traditional positions in the selvage.  Bottom pair shows the plate number straddling two stamps, right single shows only part of "375".

Scott 530, 3¢ Type IV, Plate Number 9373 L

Scott 530, 3¢ Type IV, used, Plate Number 9383 B, with perfin "R I"

Scott 530 var, 3¢ Type IV, inverted Plate Number 8800 L

All other Left plate numbers have the bottom of the plate number toward the image.  This variety apparently occurs only on left plate blocks of plate number 8800.

Scott 530a, 3¢ Type IV, double impression, Plate Number 8810 T

Offset printings, Imperforate

Scott 531, 1¢, Plate Number 9817 T

Scott 532, 2¢ Type IV, Plate Number 10918 T

Scott 532 var, 2¢ Type IV, strip of 3 showing bottom plate number 10918 with two "ghost" plate numbers, photographically cropped from a plate block of 6

Scott 533, 2¢ Type V, Plate Number 11260 L

Scott 534, 2¢ Type Va, Plate Number 12007 B

Scott 534 var, 2¢ Type Va, Bottom strip of 3 with plate number 11414 and two "ghost" plate numbers

Scott 534A, 2¢ Type VI, Plate Number 11710 L

Scott 534B, 2¢ Type VII, Plate Number 12809 L

Scott 535, 3¢ Type IV, Plate number 9333 L

Scott 536, 1¢, Perforated 12-1/2, Plate Number 10052 B

1919 Washington-Franklin issues

Coil waste, Perforated 11 x 10

Portions of sheets that had already been perforated 10 vertically for use in coils, were later perforated 11 horizontally so that what had been formerly scrap could then be sold for regular sheet postage.

Scott 538, 1¢ pair, Plate number 11764 S30 T

Scott 538a, 1¢ pair, imperforate horizontally error, Plate number 13612 T

Scott 539, 2¢, pair with plate number 7462 S20 T

Scott 540, 2¢, pair with plate number 12603 T and correct S30

Scott 540, 2¢, pair with plate number 10471 T and  inverted S30.

Of 271 plates used to print Scott 540, 10471 is the only number with the inverted S30.

Scott 540a, 2¢ pair, imperforate horizontally error, Plate Number 13740 T

Scott 541, 3¢, Plate Number 9143 T

1920 Washington-Franklin issues

Rotary press sheet stamps, unwatermarked, Perforated 11

Scott 542, 1¢, Plate Number 11738 R

Scott 543, 1¢ PNS from side plates, Plate Number 13354 R

Scott 543, 1¢ PNS from corner plates, Plate Number 13962 UL

1920 Washington-Franklin issues

Coil waste, Perforated 11

Scott 545, 1¢, Plate Number 13857 T

Scott 546, 2¢ Type III, pair with plate number 12515 S30  T

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