UX72a (S89b) Nathan Hale Missing ¢
"The original find of this plate position and the major source of
these cards contained 400 cards on non-fluorescent card stock and 18 cards on fluorescent card stock."
This one is "non-fluorescent"
There is an article in the 1980 May/June UPSS Postal Stationary about the discovery:
"Sometime in 1978 a Maryland printer interested in postal card printing errors that surfaced in his work noticed a major error in a batch of 9¢ Nathan Hale single cards. The cent mark after the figure "9" was entirely missing. he extracted all of the errors that he could find in the stock available to him and then began to search for more copies at post offices in his home area. His search brought him in contact with a prominent postal stationery specialist......"
Posted 11/17/2021 6:39 pm
