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These self adhesives are manufactured by more then one company some differences are likely!
I'm confused. According to the specifications recited below, this issue of stamps was only produced by one printer, Sennett Security Products (SSP) and there were seven (7) specifically detailed colors used in the printing process, which makes me wonder how the posted color variation could have occurred. Perhaps an unintended mixture of those colors (as in the yellow (PMS 135) may have contaminated the blue (PMS 7461) ink?
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Issue: American Eagle
Item Number: 782100
Denomination & Type of Issue: Presorted First-Class Nondenominated
Definitive (25˘ value)
Format: Coil of 10,000 (10 designs)
Series: N/A
Issue Date & City: June 26, 2003, Santa Clara, CA 95050
Photographer: N/A
Designer: Tom Engeman, Brunswick, MD
Art Director: Ethel Kessler, Bethesda, MD
Typographer: Tom Engeman, Brunswick, MD
Modeler: Donald H. Woo
Manufacturing Process: Gravure
Engraver: Southern Graphics
Printer: Sennett Security Products (SSP)
Printed at: American Packaging Corporation, Columbus, WI
Press Type: Rotomec, 3000
Stamps per coil: 10,000
Print Quantity: 310 million stamps
Paper Type: Nonphosphored, type III
Adhesive Type: Pressure sensitive
Processed at: Unique Binders, Fredericksburg, VA
Colors: PMS 135 (Yellow), PMS 186 (Red), PMS 348 (Green), PMS
7461(Blue), PMS 646 (Dark Blue), PMS 431 (Gray), Black
Stamp Orientation: Vertical
Image Area (w x h): 0.72 x 0.832 in./18.28 x 21.13 mm
Overall Size (w x h): 0.87 x 0.982 in./22.09 x 24.74 mm
Full Pane Size (w x h): N/A
Plate Size: 400 stamps per revolution
Plate Numbers: "S" followed by seven (7) single digits (every 20
stamps)
Coil Back Number Frequency: Every 10 stamps
Marginal Markings: N/A
Catalog Item Number(s):
782140 Full Coil of 10,000 - $2,500.00
782130 Strip of 25 - $6.25
782162 FDC (2 stamps) - $0.88
Posted 10/08/2011 4:15 pm
