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Louise411
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Hello from Trench Town;
If two plate blocks each have the same plate block number; does one of them have to be a fake?
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No, the plates were used to print millions of stamps. The numbers were not meant to be like a serial number used to ID the sheets of stamps. Instead, they identified the printing plates.
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All stamps printed by that plate number will carry the plate number. So many blocks with same plate number can exist.
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Edited by angore - 11/13/2019 5:42 pm
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Also, plate numbers can appear on different corners of the sheet. Some ccllectors go after all possible locations

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sheetguy2
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Louise411...not to be confusing......but the SAME plate # can be used for DIFFERENT catalog #s
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You can verify what sheetguy2mentions by using this tool to lookup any plate number and have it return the catalog numbers which use it that number.
http://www.stampsmarter.com/feature...ockHome.html
Click on 'Search by Plate Number' and then type in the number 2 and click on 'Search' Note that it returns many pages of stamps because the number 2 was used on 100+ different stamps.
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Louise411
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Hello all
A great wealth of information, I thank you all very very much.

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