Keep Postal systems alive, buy stamps and mail often 03 May 2012 07:16:42pm
I recently picked up a plate block of #C3 with a plate number of 8492, and I checked to see the plate number of the famous inverted #C3 and it is plate #8493. Is it possible the plate block I have was on the sheet just prior to the guy who bought the inverted sheet?
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re: What are the odds? US #C3 plate numbers
One in 21,348. Since there were 2,134,888 stamps produced in sheets of 100, so roughly 21,348 sheets. (no idea how the 88 came about!)
For the record, two plates were used for each sheet, a red and blue, and only one plate number of each was used. Each sheet had both plate numbers on it.
Here's what a complete plate block looks like:
Roy
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The interesting thing about the Jenny's is that they were printed with plates having only a hundred subjects each. In the case of C3, the stamps had to be printed twice hence the invert. The sheet was purchased in Washington on the very first day of sale. When Robey asked if there were any more like the one he had just purchased, the clerk demanded the sheet be returned. You can bet that the Post Office department went through every sheet in stock to be sure that there were no more error sheets in the stock.
However the double run has produced some other interesting varieties like the "fast" Jenny shown here from my collection
As you can see the Jenny is about to fly out of the frame.
Plate numbers are not actual sheet numbers but are used to identify and account for the plates at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
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re: What are the odds? US #C3 plate numbers
Just one more piece of "Jenny" trivia.
The vignette of the aircraft was printed first.
Then the sheet was inserted in reverse.
So actually it is an inverted frame.
But such inconvenient facts seldom trump cultural legends.
Jenny kissed me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she set in,
Time, you thief, who love to get,
Sweets into your list, put thet in!
Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,
Say that health and wealth have miss'd me,
Say I'm growing old, but add,
Jenny kissed me.
------- Leigh Hunt
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