GB Black Plate 2
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- Registration Date: 22nd April 1840
- Destroyed: 19th November 1841
- Constant Plate characteristics:
- The left star is characteristic, normal only on 55 units FF to JL, all others show an absence of the 7 o'clock ray and of these all but 33 (CI to FE) also show an absence of the 10 o'clock ray.
- Re-Entries: HD, HL, SA
- Double Letters: DG, EA, FG, KE, ME, PA, TL
- Basal Shifts: GC, IL
- Repairs:
- Plate 2 was repaired on two occasions, the first during May or June 1840 during the black printing period; the second repair occured some time in 1841 during the red printing period.
| A Row | | B Row | | C Row | | D Row | | E Row | | F Row | | G Row | | H Row | | I Row | | J Row | |
| K Row | | L Row | | M Row | | N Row | | O Row | | P Row | | Q Row | | R Row | | S Row | | T Row | |
Missing Imprimatur positions courtesy of [1]
State 1
A Row
B Row
C Row
D Row
E Row
F Row
G Row
H Row
I Row
J Row
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K Row
L Row
M Row
N Row
O Row
P Row
Q Row
R Row
S Row
T Row
First Repair (May or June 1840) - State 2 (SG AS17) Black Prints
State 1 showed early signs of wear, particularly to the engraving of the queen's head, in state 2 the engraving was generally restored. As the repair took place early in the life of the plate, second state copies are more common than copies in the first state.
Red Prints Following First Repair - Repaired states only these positions below.
State 2 for SD, TC, TE, TF, TG, TH as no state 1 exist in red for these units.
Red Prints Following Second Repair - State 2 (SG AS19)
The second repair produced differences in the characteristic ray flaws of the original state generally with one or other ray restored
