Saturday, November 15, 2008

Plate 64 - BH



I haven't had anything to post on for a couple of months, but I recently found a very nice state 2 example of this stamp in a strip of five.
It's shown at bottom right above, together with two state 1s above and another state 2.

State 1 prints show what I would call a slight-to-medium strength upper border shift.
This effect is lessened by the repair.

Statham notes:
'BH is known with a strong TRL in the left margin. This suggests that it was repaired by re-entry, although there is no noticeable strengthening of the frame line or weakening of the check letters.'
I would agree that there is no apparent strengthening of the left side, but at right there is restoration of the small break at approximately 1 o'clock.

Repaired prints do not appear to be particularly scarce.