This is for my missing comrad Buchanan Bob, from the book Encyclopedia of United States Stamps and Stamp Collecting, kindly sent to me by T360. First printings of U.S. postage stamps Scott 1 and 2 were printed in New York City in 1847 by Rawdon,Wright,Hatch and Edson. This firm did not use plate numbers. However beginning with stamps printed in 1851 by Toppan,Carpenter, Casilear and Co. plates were typically numbered. The company apparently used number 1 on the first plate made for each different stamp and successively higher numbers for each additonal plate made for each denomination !
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