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- Registration Date: 11 February 1857.
- Put to press 11 May 1857.
- Earliest recorded use 25 September 1857.
- Last printing 4 June 1858.
- Destroyed: 29 October 1861 (as was plate 5).
- Sheets Printed 50,000
- Missing Imprimaturs AA-AL GK GL HG-HL TL.
- Constant Plate characteristics: Watermark Large crown Alphabet 3. (These letters are generally bigger than alphabet 2) The white lines are thinner than on Plate 5.
- This plate started life when one (of the two) perforation machines was Perf 16. Statham estimates 2,500 sheets were perf 16 (SG F8).
- The remainder were perf 14 (SG F7).
- Re-Entries: Fresh Entry (This is a re-entry occurring in the initial laying down of the plate) JH KE LE ME NE OE PE QE RE SE
- Repairs: AF shows no re-entry marks on the imprimatur sheet. A very early repair by re-entry must have occurred as only one un-repaired stamp has been found (see Statham)
- For details of double letters, corrosion and other varieties please see Volume 18 of "The Essential Guide to the Great Britain Line Engraved 1d and 2d Stars 1840-64" by Dr Kenneth Statham. Pub E Paul Ltd. ISBN 1-899930-24-8. Also "Two Pence Blue Plating Guide" by Mike Jackson ISBN 978-0-9528274-6-7. Also see "British Line Engraved Stamps Twopence Blue Studies of plates 1-15" by H Osborne, MD.
Missing Imprimatur positions courtesy of [1]
For the later States see sections after the T Row
State 1
A Row
B Row
C Row
D Row
E Row
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F Row
G Row
H Row
I Row
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K Row
L Row
M Row
N Row
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P Row
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