1c 1851 Plate 2 Stamps

I'm glad it helped.

I had a hard time plating this one. Spent hours on it. It is Siegel 997 lot 5127.
I finally plated it with the help of Doporto's site. It is 15-17R2.
Position 16R2 has the marks that I needed to plate it.

I concur with 15-17R2. Good job.

Hopefully these iPhone pics will come out right side up.

This is Dick Celler's plate 2 plating now that I have completed it.

Three positions I have on cover - shown.

...and finally the 3 missing positions on-cover.

I like the 52L2 cover with, presumably Ashbrook's writing all over the front, where he couldn't plate it. Dick plated that one.

Nice job completing the reconstruction.
If you have a good scanner, I would like to see a 1200 dpi image on the two plates.

I finished going through my right pane images and now working on the left pane. Plating images that I run across. Still working on left pane guide chart. I will wait until I finish the images before I replace the Stamp Smarter images. I am trying to plate some unplated stamps trying to find plate 3 items and verify the plated issues.

Doporto site is undergoing some changes in the right pane of plate 2. It appears that he ran across an image of the ex-Hind block of 70. He is putting up some of the images without any plating yet. I would have liked to have gotten ahold of that image.

I finished up the new left pane guide dot chart.
Here are both new charts.

jaxom - Nice job. If you'd not mind sending me the individual images, it would be great to have uniformly sized images in the 1c Franklin Plating app.

I have finished updating all the images for both panes on the Stamp Smarter website.
I uploaded the two new guide dot charts as well.
I put the spacing charts for plate 2 where the plate 8 guide dot charts would be.
I doubt the perforated issues will ever get a guide dot chart.

Widglo46, I will make the images for you.

I like your guide dot charts.

The way to look at them, is vertically by column.
You can see how the plate was entered, quite easily, as each dot represents a transfer roll setting. You can see how, for example, if a guide dot is low on one position, it tends to be similar on all in the same column. See the 8R column for an extreme example.

I think I was able to plate this Type II as 31R2. The plate marking to the right of the side ornament is fairly clear and matches the Neinken Map. The markings on the left side crossing S1 and S is not readily detectable, but I think I can see a very faint marking. Would appreciate a second opinion.