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CS12/568
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CSA #12b (AD) Horz Block of 12
in the Light Blue color shade UNUSED
(4-Margin) OG unevenly distributed and hinged in the
two upper corners. Fifth
State Imprint Plate No. 4 from the Left Pane
(firm name completely removed as well as the "s" from
"Engraver") (CC 12-AD-if). Removing the firm name is believed
to have been done just prior to
transferring the plates to Keatinge & Ball in the late
Summer of
1864 and is a transitional imprint. This is the scarcest of the AD
imprints as relatively few stamps were printed from the Final State AD
plate prior to transfer and very few examples of this imprint still
exist. In 2008, a block with this Final State imprint, which was
clearly a KB printing, was discovered. The details of this find were
published in the Oct-Dec 2008 issue of The Confederate Philatelist "A Major Discovery: An Archer & Daly Final State Imprint on an Early Keatinge & Ball Printing"
by Randy Neil and Patricia Kaufmann. (Click the link if you wish to
read the article.) The discovery block in the article is also
illustrated and described on Page 148 of the Collector's Guide to Confederate Philately Second Edition.
The block presented here could very well be a KB printing because it
has heavy toned gum unevenly distributed. But the block here presented is the wrong color
for a KB block, and some
cross-hatching is visible. So the block presented is more compatible
with a very late AD printing just prior to transfer. Still a very scarce imprint block and can be
considered as an AD-KB Transitional Imprint. Another example of this
imprint is presented below as a Block of 18 CS12/608. |
$400.00
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