Great Britain Scott #39d Hairlines

The Scott Catalogue uses the description 'hairlines' for #39d. Can someone show me what I am to be looking for on this issue? This only appears on plate 4? Is there a way to differentiate plate 3 or 4 besides the 'hairlines'? Thanks for all the help y'all are constantly providing!!
Greg

Hi Greg,

The hairlines are a diagonal line through the box at the bottom of the stamp that has the check letter in it.

The plate numbers were shown in the selvedge for plates 3 and 4 so apart from the hairlines there doesn't appear to be any way to tell one plate from the other.

Hope this helps

Hairlines are the little marks in the corner. Please see this snippet of the upper left corner (those these marks should appear in all corners of a hairline version).

Thanks Bobby and Partime. I appreciate the knowledge very much and this has helped tremendously!

Thank you Partime, I didn't know that the hairlines were in all four corners.

I have two copies, shown below for reference to the marks in the corners. Sometimes these "hairlines" are very difficult to see as they are hidden by the perforations. My general finding is that they are meant to occur on each corner. Both are straight line versions on the right side.

The first stamp has some broken lines on the top border which may help in plating (if so desired).




The second is a slightly better example.

Thanks for the info guys. Do we know if any of the positions on plate 4 show the hairlines in only 1, 2 or 3 corners versus all 4?

You would have to search out a publication from a plating specialist for this sort of information I think. Part of the question will involve plate wear.