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The one I have is on a cut piece with a CDS Cleveland Ohio Sep 30, 1920 THANKS!!  |
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Waynezach, could you please tell us what you see? The picture is a bit out of focus - maybe I am overlooking it.
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I'll try and post a better image. I see spider veins going down Washington's face. More so on the nose and the side of the mouth |
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Be sure to modify your picture with arrows or something else to show where you see this. I think I see what you are describing, but arrows would help. Thanks. |
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Those are probably gripper cracks, rather then the cracked plate which supposedly runs from the P of postage to the top of George's head. |
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I see those "spider veins" now. Gripper cracks or a cracked plate - would they not show up as heavily inked?
I am thinking now about Scott 1908 plate 15 " Wounded P" or Scott 2124 plate 4 " Buggy Whip". Those are examples of gripper cracks and they are heavily inked because the cracks collect ink.
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Isn't it post-printing surface scuffing? This item is nearly 100 years old and could have been in a file at some point, with other papers rubbing over it, or otherwise subjected to surface wear. The same effect is seen in the leaves at lower left. It's possible that some other object just slid across it.
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OK I took out my digital microscope. It's not surface scuffs. You can see it is almost a network of cracks around the printing lines. The lines are white (can't get the color right on the upload!)  |
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Your right peter! If it was a cracked plate, those lines should be filled with ink! Maybe it's from a cleaner used on the plate which caused a reaction with the ink. Kind of like that crackle paint you can buy. |
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I found a couple of oddities while looking through my US 492's. In the first, I see a filled in spot on the nose, but it looks like very poor wiping, and nothing else.  And on another stamp, I see that the bottom frame is actually made up of many dots. I thought it was a solid color.  |
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Partime, the border on type III W/F is actually a cross-hatching pattern. It usually doesn't show well because of the inking in that part of the design. There is an explanation on the differences in the borders for Types I,II and III Rotary printings in this post.  https://goscf.com/t/42370 |
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