Recommended Literature For Plating Netherlands 1852 Issues

Does anyone have any recommendations on literature which would explain how to plate the 1852 King William III Imperf issues from the Netherlands?

Yes. There is set of books, one for each of the individual plates of the issue written by G.C. van Balen Blanken & Bert Buurman. If I remember correctly the APS has all the books avilable
If I count my set correctly there are books for 17 plates - 6 for the 5 cent, 10 for the 10 cent and 1 for the 15 cent. There is also a set of loose-leaf pages for the 10 cent plate Ia.


Peter

You can try this on-line book (in Dutch).It shows the characteristics of the plates.
https://www.delpher.nl/nl/boeken/vi...037043:00072
De drukplaten der eerste emissie van Nederland
The printing plates of the first emission of the Netherlands
In the link below ,a few pics of the different plates…
http://www.rynmond.com/v56.html
https://www.emissie-1852.nl/emissie...ositioneren/

I don't know if if is still available, but a long time ago I bought a CD: "de complete plaatreconstructies van Collectie van Swieten de Blom", by Ronald Bouscher. The copyright is 2001.

It contains high quality scans of all 1700 positions.

If you don't know what you are looking for, it can take quite a while to narrow down the position, but it is good for seeing exactly what a variant looks like.

Jan

Thanks everyone, you gave me a lot of great information, and a reason to consider joining the APS since those books are hard to find at any price.