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From Which Plate Is This Penny Red ?

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Posted 01/06/2025   6:08 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Captain Stamp to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hello everyone ! I just bought this Penny Red and I did a lot of research about from which plate it could be. I know that it can be a plate between 1 and 45. Like I said, I did a lot of research and I still don't know from which plate it is. Could an expert tell me from which plate it is ? Thanks,

CS

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Posted 01/06/2025   6:28 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rogdcam to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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I know that it can be a plate between 1 and 45.


There were 173 plates used to print the imperforate penny reds.

Have you used this tool?

https://www.gbps.org.uk/tools/plati...p?letters=OG

No offense but there is a TON of great resources online. You need to start finding them and reading up on the topic. It will be work but it should also be a lot of fun.

Here are a few. You have been given others in other posts.

https://www.warwickandwarwick.com/n...us%20states.

https://www.stanleygibbons.com/coll...t-penny-reds

http://www.pennyreds.co.uk/

https://www.members.tripod.com/~pen...corners.html

Learn and ask here if you get stuck on something.
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Posted 01/06/2025   6:35 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Captain Stamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks ! But I asked this because I didn't find a plate that was looking like mine, but I already have some references to plate them. I was only wondering if an expert could be better to find the exact plate number in checking the check letters. I thought that that was plate 9, but the letters were not exactly placed like mine.
Image of plate 9 example :



But as you can see, that's not exactly looking like the same
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Edited by Captain Stamp - 01/06/2025 6:39 pm
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Posted 01/06/2025   7:26 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rogdcam to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Did you take measurements to use in the GBPS plating tool? You have a huge advantage in finding the answer because you have the stamp(s) in hand. Right?
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Posted 01/06/2025   7:36 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rogdcam to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here are the instructions for using the measuring tool:

https://www.gbps.org.uk/tools/plati...ructions.php

Have you done any of this?
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Posted 01/06/2025   8:43 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Captain Stamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I'll learn about this system and I'll tell you this. When you see the picture of the plate 9, is there possibilities that my stamp is this one ?
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Posted 01/07/2025   07:40 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rogdcam to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
What are the steps you took to narrow it down to plate 9?
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Posted 01/07/2025   4:51 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Captain Stamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I looked images of all the first plates (except some plates between 1 and 10 because I didn't find images of them) in using the websites that Bobby de la rue and you gave me in the post : what reference do you use to plate Penny Reds, and I saw that plate 9 was the most plausible because of the centering of the letters. But unfortunately, that wasn't looking EXACTLY like mine, and I concluded that it's not plate 9 (probably). But I'm still not sure.
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Edited by Captain Stamp - 01/07/2025 4:52 pm
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Posted 01/07/2025   5:43 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rogdcam to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
GBPS has every plate and great tools to measure letter placement to narrow the choices down. I have said this now more than once. No offense, but the teaching to fish part is done, now you need to fish.
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Posted 01/07/2025   6:38 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Bobby De La Rue to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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(except some plates between 1 and 10 because I didn't find images of them)



They're here CS:

https://www.maltesex.com/plating/



Your stamp could be a plate 9 but the absence of the stamp's right margin makes plating that much more difficult.
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Posted 01/07/2025   8:36 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Captain Stamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yeah that's true, Bobby de la rue.

Rodgcam, I'll learn this ! Thanks !
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Posted 01/07/2025   9:26 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Captain Stamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
but wait, Bobby de la rue, it's still missing plate 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8. Maybe that my penny red is one of these, but I can't know because there's no images of lefto rightg of these plates.
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Posted 01/07/2025   9:42 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Just_fella to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Do you have a scanner?
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Posted 01/07/2025   9:43 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Captain Stamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I have one from a printer but it's not really a good quality one
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Posted 01/08/2025   12:26 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Bobby De La Rue to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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but wait, Bobby de la rue, it's still missing plate 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8.


No they're not. Scroll down the page and look for:

"Here are some shortcuts to all the plates organized by left letters"
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Posted 01/08/2025   12:46 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Captain Stamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I understand but for OG Penny Reds, they're not all here right ?
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