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FINE APPEARANCE. A BEAUTIFUL AND RARE ORIGINAL-GUM PAIR SHOWING THE COMPLETE IMPRINT FROM THE LEFT PANE OF PLATE TWELVE. A WONDERFUL SHOWPIECE.
For Plates 11 and 12, the style and placement of the imprint was altered from previous 1c plates. The Second Type imprint with negative lettering and "Toppan Carpenter & Co." was first used in June 1860 on the 12c Plate 3, followed shortly after by its use on the 30c and 90c plates made during the summer of 1860. Its next use was on the 1c Plate 11, probably toward the end of 1860. Casilear's name, which appeared in the imprint on earlier plates, even after he had retired, was omitted from the new Second Type imprint. The use of this imprint and the reversion to a 3-subject transfer roll (and absence of significant relief trimming) have led specialists to theorize that Plates 11 and 12 were made by different engravers than the ones who made Plates 4 through 10.
Ex Neinken and illustrated in his book (p. 498) (Image)
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FINE APPEARANCE. UNDOUBTEDLY A UNIQUE USED MULTIPLE SHOWING THE ENTIRE PLATE NUMBER AND IMPRINT FROM THE LEFT PANE OF PLATE TWELVE.
Ex Neinken. (Image)
VERY FINE APPEARANCE. A RARE 1857 ONE-CENT UNUSED BLOCK OF FOUR SHOWING PART IMPRINT AND PART PLATE NUMBER FROM THE RIGHT PANE OF PLATE TWELVE.
Ex Neinken. Detail illustrated in Neinken book on p. 498 (Image)
VERY FINE. THIS IS THE ONLY RECORDED EXAMPLE SHOWING THE ACTUAL PLATE NUMBER FROM THE RIGHT PANE OF PLATE 12. A GREAT PHILATELIC RARITY AND ESPECIALLY DESIRABLE ON A CIVIL WAR PATRIOTIC COVER.
According to the Neinken book (p. 497), "There is a record of the plating marks on 60R, but no copy is known to this author showing the imprint or any part of the number."
Illustrated in November 1986 Chronicle (p. 263). Ex Oakley. (Image)
VERY FINE AND CHOICE. A BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL-GUM STRADDLE-PANE BLOCK OF THE 1857 ONE-CENT TYPES I AND II FROM PLATE TWELVE.
Ex Neinken. Scott Retail $9,500.00 as a Type I/II block (Image)
FINE-VERY FINE APPEARANCE. AN IMPORTANT AND RARE ORIGINAL-GUM BLOCK OF SIXTEEN OF THE ONE-CENT 1857 ISSUE FROM PLATE TWELVE, WHICH SHOWS THE MISPLACED RELIEFS IN THE FOURTH VERTICAL ROW OF THE LEFT PANE.
The original order of entering the reliefs was abandoned after the entry of 13 vertical rows (from 10R to 8L inclusive). Please see page 167 for a diagram of the Plate 12 layout.
Ex Neinken. Scott Retail for four combination blocks (including one with Type IIIa) is $39,500.00 (Image)