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Post by littleriverphil on Oct 16, 2014 23:00:52 GMT
Sure must have been a busy day at the American Bank Note Co plant the day the sheet that this stamp came from was printed, not only was that sheet pulled off the press and tossed onto a freshly printed stack, the plate was un evenly wiped prior to printing. Seems theres a little more ink on the right side of this lightly printed stamp. I think more ink went on the back than did on the front of the stamp.   |
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Post by stoltzpup on Oct 17, 2014 1:07:57 GMT
An interesting example. I'm no expert on this sort of thing, but I've seen reverse off-prints that resulted from damp stamps being stuck together, then carefully separated. It makes a difference if the reverse image is under or over the gum, which I can't tell from your pic but you may be able to determine.
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Post by littleriverphil on Oct 17, 2014 16:57:45 GMT
From what I understand, the normal sequence was to gum the sheets after printing. It seems that if it were gummed before it picked up the offset that it would have stuck to the other sheet as the gum dried.
But because of that blank corner lower left I'd be fearfull of testing to see if it was offset and then gummed. I would like to remove the hinge, but am afraid that would remove some of the image.
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