Ive been looking through a 100 or so covers with this stamp, and a few of his cousins. The stamp on the left caught my eye. Is it just a wiper blade flaw, or is it the cracked plate?
If I look in the white margin below the bottom of the design, there appears to be some cracking. The top stamp looks to have traces of a line as well.
This is by no means a "gripper crack". It is also not a plate crack with any other name! Too bad you did not scan the whole stamp, I see more of these scratches in the bottom margin. They do indeed look more like a doctor blade, and there seems to be a slight hint of a continuation on the top stamp, just above the "n" of "Franklin". Do you know the name of the press these were printed on?
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Posted 06/21/2013 07:15 am
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