Thanks for the response, Rog. I actually have that thread saved on my desktop as one of my main references. A lot of good information there.
It focuses mainly on ribbing for the Banknotes, which I believe is treated separately when referring to ribbing found in paper before or after.
According to the Calvet Hahn piece,
http://www.nystamp.org/postal-histo...ic-is-paper/the machine made paper of the 1951 imperforate sometimes showed ribbing, but I wonder, because of pieces like this, if that same machine-made "ribbing" went back earlier to at least the second printing of the 1847 issues (being the start of the Fourdrinier production).