Recutting On The R68c

Found it! TAR July-August 1985, Vol.39 No.7 page 98. Email me if you can't find it and I'll send a scan. Karl ktitle1@comcast.net

I have seen the recut term listed in the catalog under R75. I'm still unclear exactly what a recut is. Can someone explain that and post a picture showing this.

Thanks.

I believe that this example of R75c shows the recutting at the bottom.

Jim

Still unclear. What exactly does recut mean? Does it involve the perforations? the design? ??? Can you point it out on that stamp.

Recutting or retouching is the manual strengthening of design elements on the plate using an engraving tool.

I don't know what recutting the Scott catalogue is referring to but on Jim's example, I am certain that the right edge of the upper right shield has been recut. That is a very common recut on the R75 plate. I am less certain about the bottom frame line being recut. It could be an artifact of reentry of the plate or a slight DT at bottom. It certainly has some east-west doubling of the frame line. The general appearance of the stamp suggests a late state impression but I am not sure if the plate was actually reentered.

On my R68 that I posted earlier, the recutting is confined to the left edge of the upper left shield.

Sorry, I can't add arrows to the picture as it is right at the 200Kb size limit.

The bottom horizontal frame line has been re-entered, or re-cut, by hand. Note that it is thicker at the left than at the right.

The vertical left and right frame lines have similarly been re-entered, producing double lines here and there.

Re-cut has nothing to do with the perforations, entirely to do with the design.

Just compare the bottom area to a "normal" stamp, and you'll see the differences.

Jim

Reentry and recutting are two very different operations and don't really produce the same "look". The doubling of the framelines at left and right were caused by the transfer roll not being properly registered with a previous entry of that position. The bottom frame line, with all of it's peculiarities, could have easily been created solely by reentry.