226 Fold And Cracked Plate.

Here it is.





Jeremy

I see the preprinted wrinkle, but no luck seeing the cracked plate.

In the future, can you please do your front and back pictures in the same orientation? It would help us to match up the features. I barely see the fold (to me, it looks like that was created after removing from cover, drying and pressing) and do not see any plate crack. Can you circle the area of interest?

Here is what I'm looking at. In the lines of the design within the circled part of the stamp starting at the frame shows where ink has filled in the crack joining all of the lines together just above the P in postage extent ending all the way to the frame lines. There is a lot more to the crack but this is the spot that I can see with the naked eye and I do where glasses too.

Jeremy

The paper wrinkle is what you have circled. That is why we need to see the front and back in the correct orientation.

So, to reiterate, no plate crack that I can see.

Yes when a wrinkle occurs and a small strip of paper forms a ridge, the ridge is heavily inked and often, as it is here, a white space (uninked) runs on both sides of the ridge. This is NOT a plate crack but caused by an issue with the paper.It remains a collectible freak with little if any additional value, for some collectors the freak would reduce the value.

What is the purpose of the black arrow?

Thanks.

It is an interesting freak and will have a home in my collection. I'm not one of those elitist collectors. I like the challenge of searching for the unique and unusual items that gets shunned. Besides I could never afford everything in mint never hinged condition unless I win the lottery. There is a fat chance of that ever happening. I have one album for that kind of collection and of course I just missing the big ticket items. The zeppelins, the columbians 1-5 dollar, the trans Mississippi 1and 2 dollar and of course the white plains souvenir sheet and that album will be complete to 1976. My grand mother started that album.

I have since found the used classics to be far more interesting besides they are more affordable.

Jeremy

The arrow was me being clumsy and fat fingering a key.