3 Cent Plate 2e, Maybe

A pile of clues here! 59L3 it is!

Excellent, thanks.
These Three-Row stamps are excellent for a beginner to work with.

More to come.

Yeah! Reconstructing plates (or panes) by collecting a stamp from each position has been an obsession of some collectors of the 1851-1857 3-cent issue for almost 100 years. I don't know whether it's getting easier to accomplish this (with more examples being plated) or more difficult (with more collectors competing for a fixed number of stamps), but completing a set of the "Three Rows" is certainly achievable.

Sticking with the ninth column, I've plated this as , 29L3. I cut the left upper portion off in the pic. I don't think it matters in verifying this one.
The guide dot, once again being key to my opinion.

If this is 29L3, then, to this point I have harvested, 19, 29, 59, 79, 89 and 99L3's

This image is a bit distorted. I left the stamp on the page. That doesn't allow me to get the camera directly over it.

I have marked this as, 39L3.
The guide dot showing on the stamp above, appears to be the 29L3.
The stamp is relief A.
There is space between the lower right frame line and the lower diamond block.

If I have plated this one correctly, I only need 9L3 and 69L3 to complete that vertical row.

Have you found any of the imperforates with Chase's writing on back?

I guess I wouldn't know what Chase's writing would look like. I have found two stamps with writing, so far. One was the 19L3, if I remember correctly.

Sounds like that collection was out of circulation for a while. I'll have to scan some Chase annotations.

Thanks.
So far, I've only removed about twenty stamps of the nearly one thousand stamps.
The two that had pencil notations on the back, looked like this.



Edit:This ^^ isn't true actually. As I mentioned, the 19L3 has notation also. I put it in a Showguard Mount. I'll take another look at it.

Here are four #11s Annotated by Carroll Chase. His handwriting was very distinct, especially his Rs, which rarely touched in the middle, and his 2s that remind me of sketched seagulls.

The 19L3 is ruled out then. This one has a large fancy L. Also, it is written at the top of the stamp not the center as yours show.

Thanks. Now I know what to watch for going forward.

Much of this thread shows examples of #11A from the famous "Three Rows" of plate 3 Left, where a worker recut extra side frame lines at some positions, and fewer frame lines at other positions on the plate to make bad spacing between vertical rows less conspicuous. Carroll Chase stated; "it is possible that fault had been found with plate 2, the spacing on that plate being noticeably bad."

Chase wrote of the right pane of plate 2L; "The widest spacing between the fifth and sixth rows, near the bottom of the plate, is 1-1/2 mm., while the closest, between the sixth and seventh rows, near the bottom of the plate, is about 1/3 mm." Here is a stamp from the sixth vertical row, position 76R2L (fortunately mis-cut), with 1-1/2 mm spacing at left, and 1/2 mm spacing at right:

WOW, showing frame lines from the adjacent stamps...as a single, that must be pretty rare.

What are the chances this pair is 96R-97R2L?
I had pulled this pair because there was writing on the back. I didn't include it in that other thread because the writing is hard to decipher. It can look like 96R2. It lacks the L.
Sorry for the scan. It's late, I should be in bed. Just wanted to throw this up first.

A #11 single showing parts of two or more adjacent stamps certainly isn't rare. All it took was some careless postal clerks. Here is a hastily-cut "three-rows" stamp, position 29L3, showing parts of four adjoining stamps: