A vertical pair is on sale under # 151588747734. It has the plate number on top, and I do not believe I have ever seen such a coil pair before. The plate # is 6539. I wonder if this really is a coil pair?
Petert4522.... sheets were taken and (in this case) pasted into strips vertically....from top to bottom....to make coils... where joined they are called paste-up pairs
Naturally a plate # is only on 1 position of the sheet... a paste up pair will occur every 10 stamps.... a paste up pair with plate #...every 100 stamps
I believe the process for Flat plate coils was: Sheets of 400 were cut in half to sheets of 200 then pasted together, then perforated and cut into coil strips, edges trimmed, then coiled into rolls of 500 or 1000.
Pasted over? Yes. This would have been used as a strip of 3 or more with the plate number covered by the rest of the strip as a paste-up. Soaking that longer strip from the cover separated the 2 pieces and revealed the plate plate number, which does not have any postal cancel over the numbered selvage.
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Posted 02/15/2015 12:49 pm
