Position 7L3

1¢ Franklin Issue of 1851-1857, PLATE 3
Position 7L3

Blue,
Type II, Relief T
Issued only imperforate.

It should be noted that the plating drawings for 1L3 to 16L3 in the 1972 Neinken book are incorrect. The diagrams where later corrected in 1981. The corrections were published in the USPCS Chronicle Whole Number 110, May 1981.

This stamp is part of a strip of 3. (See 8L3 and 9L3.)

Figure 1. (Below) Red arrows point to the "S" CURL. The violet arrow are marks of interest not shown in the plating diagrams and may not be constant.

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Update 10/3/06