Need Help Plating A #24

I find most #24's a real challenge to plate. I think that this one is a relief "E" from Plate 7. The blushes on the lower right and above ornament "V" should make it easier to plate, but it doesn't seem to clearly match with any of the Neinken maps. I could spend a few more hours on it, but I learn more from discussions on this forum then I do working alone. If anyone needs to see higher resolution of a particular area of the stamp, I'll zero in on it and post a photomicrograph.

widglo46, give Plate 5 a look.

Dudley - I looked at Plate 5, but I still couldn't find a match. There are four prominent markings on my stamp - the blur which has replaced the "V" ornament, lines in the right upper corner, the right lower corner with an extensive blur, and a faint, but definite blur on the Franklin's shoulder. 44L5 might be a good candidate, but it lacks the blurs on the shoulder and the right lower corner. 84-86L5 all have some of the features, but they also are quite different.

I decide the stamp more likely came from Plate 7, because there are several positions on that plate with an identical blur on the shoulder. I'm wondering if it could be 87L7.

I am pretty sure it is 86L5.

Dudley - I think you must be correct! Thanks so much for pointing me back to 86L5. The Neinken map for 86L5 certainly pops out because of the blotched right lower corner, and I guess that I initially dismissed it because it lacked a blur over ornament "V". I think now that I put too much weight on that one marking.

Looking at it again for about the tenth time, you have to be right. Not only is the right lower corner a great match (note also the arrow in the image below at prominent vertical line), the plate marks in the "S" of "U.S." and the "S" of "POSTAGE" are there, too. Lastly, there is a blur over the left bottom corner ornaments.

Ashbrook wrote that of all the stamps from plates 5 to 10, those from Plate 5 are the most beautiful. I can understand why he said that now - this #24 has the best color and impression of any I own.

As far as type V's go, hard to improve on that stamp. She's a beauty.