Plate 154 - AE

This is also a new repair to this plate.

I have had the stamp on the right for a few years, and believed it to be plate 164 state 2. A recent find of a strip from plate 154 proved it was not plate 164 at all, but a newly discovered reapir from plate 154.

The repair results in a weakened checkletter E and new TRL that runs down most of the right margin, yet is relatively ill-defined.

Repairs to this plate are now know from: AE, AG, AH, AI, AJ and BJ

Plate 153 - OE

I recently found a strip of four from this plate, containing the OE stamp shown above on the right.

On the left is the imprimatur, and comparing them mine shows a short faint TRL in the upper left margin and the sideline adjacent to this is clearly stronger than the imprimatur, proving a repair to this unit that was not previously known.

There are now known repairs to this plate on units: ME, NE, OE and OF.

I have not been able to find anyone who has seen a print of stamp OF in state 2. Does anyone have one? (Could it be that the literature has an error, and the repair is not on OF but on OE?)