I have just obtained my last few pieces for my plate number collection "Landscapes 1939".
Stamps with plate numbers where printed in a very large sheet. This sheet consisted of 4 separate connecting sheets. 50 stamps/100stamps/50/100. The Pl.Nr. is always on the the left bottom of each sheet.
I completed album pages today for the 50 heller stamp from 1939 Castle Karlstein and would like to share these with you.
These are all the Plate Nr.for the 50 heller. I will ad and share the next stamp when I am finished with next pages.
Thank you David for clarifying sheet and pane. Sometimes it´s difficult to find the right translation from German to English. for example if I take the word pane and look at it in the Philatelic Translator I come up with the German word "Blatt". This literally translates to leaf. We use the word H-Blatt (H stands for Heftchen, Booklet) to say Booklet Pane which is only part of the H-Bogen (Booklet sheet)and these only have 1 plate number.
That being said, if you call this part of the large sheet a pane in English I will have to copy this into my book. However if I take it from a stand point of a specialist, (I´m not), I would make the objection that each of the 4 Panes have their own separate plate number. Would this not make them separate sheets?
you brought up some good comments I hadn't considered. Pane can refer to both the four individual large panes from a sheet as well as much smaller units, such as the booklet pane, to which you refer. Thanks for adding that.
In US production, each sheet's panes have the same Plate Number(s), so each pane should be essentially identical, except for the position of the PN(s) and the cut lines and straight edges (if present). Most of this refers to older stamps, prior to the self-adhesive state.
B&M production may be quite different; can you, or someone else, show a copy of the 4-different PNs on the 4 panes of a sheet. I am not arguing, just curious.
I am not a specialist either, but do collect all of Czech and related.
David
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