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Printer:
Bureau of Engraving and Printing  Search this
Medium:
paper; ink (multicolored) / engraving
Type:
Bureau Plate Proofs
Place:
United States of America
Date:
February 12, 1968
Description:
Certified plate proofs are the last printed proof of the plate before printing the stamps at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. These plate proofs are each unique, with the approval signatures and date. For postal scholars these plates provide important production information in the plate margin inscriptions, including guidelines, plate numbers, and initials of the siderographer, or person who created the plate from a transfer roll.
Plate No.29560
Denomination: 6c
Subject: Farm Buildings and Fields of Ripening Grain, Illinois Statehood, 150th Anniversary
Color: dark blue, blue, red & ocher
Object number:
2009.2019.432
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Data Source:
National Postal Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm84b70e9ac-71a5-4547-ad96-eee17d1f5ecf
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:npm_2009.2019.432