Scott 1, Plate This!

Found this stamp. I know, I know... pen cancel stinks it up. But still sound with 4 margins, beautiful brown color, with early great impression from early delivery.

Lot about plate positions recently on scf- Scott 1 famously difficult to plate due to ink issues and plate corrosion, or something to that effect. However, some stamps can be plated...

For fun and education, can anyone plate this one exactly? (I already know answer-- just trying to post interesting stamp)

Next question, does this exact plate position carry any special value?
(I don't know answer to this)

Well its the 9L column - dot in S variety.
Obviously we can eliminate 99L since there is a stamp beneath it.

Good start... but give me more!

It is a lovely fresh copy, and the pm mixed a beautiful shade of blue ink to cancel that early copy. Would the large position dot inside the broken left frame line, the break just above the bottom left corner and the colorless line running thru CE have any do with it's identity?

"Would the large position dot inside the broken left frame line"--

Getting warmer!

Is there a tiny, tiny H/R in the lower right corner?

Partime,
I'm embarrassed but with is H/R? Hinge remnant comes to mind but I don't think that is what you mean. Help?

What is H/R? Sorry

Well clearly from a plating map of guide dots this could be plated.
Good luck with that for 5c stamps though.
I guess it was Chase who identified the 3 guide dots in left
Trifoliate as a variety. This might be that.
It seems like such a prominent guide dot variety
might be more likely in the top row so I'd guess
9L. There is not enough space at top to assume
this is top row - but maybe someone narrowed that
down.

I think it is 59L.

It is 69L
Found it in Bill Gross's exhibit

He has a mat for it but also in the giant specimen block
one can see it.

Sorry, had a few drinks to commiserate the Cubs. The H/R I am referring to is a small letter that appears to be in the bottom right corner. I attempted to copy and shown an arrow to what I am referring to:



Otherwise, your filename of "Contact Lenses" may help others to plate???

This is dot- in -S variety, position 69L. The three dots in trifoliate are indicative of this position for a dot in s variety. I was enjoying Bill Gross exhibit on United States 1847 stamps and found this cool variety in his presentation. Then I found this example in my own collection. Go Indians!

LOL... my wife recently bought new contact lenses and she saved something on our computer related to her purchase. Now every time I scan it labels it contact lenses and I thought it was cool, so I just go with it.