Microprinting In Replica Of The Statue Of Liberty

Can anybody point me to where to look and find the microprint on Scott 4486 etc (Image A3429)- either I'm going blind or my magnifying glass needs to be bigger but I can't find a thing.

Scott 4486 is the (APU) variety coil with 9.5" perfs, shown in the third illustration that follows:



For more info., checkout this previous thread:

https://goscf.com/t/12279

OK thanks. Now how do you read these microprints. My magnifying glass isn't doing the trick. Does one take a macro shot and blow up the image or scan at high resolution and then blow it up or what? Also, what does it mean die cut 8 1/2 vs die cut 11 for example? What is being measured and how?

Admittedly, the microprinting is extremely hard to read either by magnifier or by hi res scan. Fortunately, these examples are all coils and the easiest way to tell them apart is by the die cut perforations.

As shown on the earlier scan, the first (4490) is die cut 8.5 (AVR), the second (4488) is die cut 11 (SSP) and the third (4486) is die cut 9.5 (APU). The perfs are different enough that you should be able to tell them apart with the naked eye; otherwise you will want to use a perforation gauge to be sure.

Technically, the microprinting is slightly different on all three varieties, as the first (4490) shows the microprinting as (4EVR); the second (4488) as (4evr); and the third (4486) as (4evR).

Please educate me on this as I've just returned to the hobby and this die cut business is new to me. I presume the letter abbreviations represent different printers but what are the die cut numbers? Are they the perforations per inch?

Hi Fred, for water activated (gummed stamps), the paper was actually perforated so the designation was perfs or perforations and it was how many perfs in 2 CM (centimeters). I believe now it is still the amount of die cut ridges in 2 CM. You'll want to get a perf gauge so you can measure the perfs/die cuts. And there is a little more to it than that, but that's the gist of it.

Dave N.
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Fredrump, in addition to the thread that Wt1 provided, an awful lot of info is available at the website of the Plate Number Coil Collectors Club ( PNC3 ). It has had a bunch of trouble in the past, but is back up. Go to www.PNC3.us.