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11A With Partial Double Center Line. Easy Plating...?

 
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Posted 11/03/2015   5:52 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add stampcrow to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
This seems like low hanging fruit. This stamp is a Type II. And, it's not Orange Brown. So..., it's an 11A. So far so good.
It shows a center line to the right. (stamps are left pane) The center line is doubled in the lower third. Great clue!

Only two plates are reported to have double center lines. Plate 2, early and late states, and plate 5 early and late states. Early states are eliminated in this case due to "not Orange Brown" 11A.
So we are left with 2L late and 5L late.

Plate 5 is stated to have the frame line doubled, the entire length of the plate.
Plate 2 late, is listed showing the center lines as, "the right center line much heavier than the left". More telling, "opposite the first and tenth rows, the line is single"!

So this pair has to be, 9L & 10L of plate 2Late.
My problem is the lack of guide dots that should appear on top row stamps...???




Is it possible, that's a misplaced guide dot above the left diamond block of the right stamp?
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Posted 11/04/2015   12:49 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Classic Coins to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Stampcrow,


Quote:
"opposite the first and tenth rows, the line is single"

. . . But the line is double . . . at least part of the way.

Nice pair with generous margins! This is 39-40L2L
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CC, then it would be a single center line continuing to the top? Or, does that left center line fade in and out?

As I'm writing this, I do see evidence of the left center line, next to the right of the upper rosette.
Obviously I need to learn better diligence when working on these.

I noted the right outer frame line bends in at the bottom of the upper left rosette. That seemed to be a very good clue. But...I couldn't find a match for that clue using the Steven Ruecker images.
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Just to follow up.
After noting the left center line showing the entire length of my stamp, I revisited Steven Rueckers page. Sure enough, the 40L2L stamp pictured there, is a nearly exact match.

Humbling.
When I didn't see the guide dots, I should have kept working on it. Lesson learned.
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Edited by stampcrow - 11/04/2015 6:51 pm
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Yeah, the left part of the double center line shows up better on Steve's example, but you can clearly see where the left part on his fades about where yours fades out almost completely.
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