CS12/608

CSA #12b (AD) Block of 18 UNUSED in a Light Blue color shade (4-Margin with a lower sheet margin) OG NH. Imprint block from the Left Pane with the 5th State Plate No 4 (Final State) Imprint (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 possibly be a KB printing because it has heavy toned gum. But the block here presented is the wrong color for a KB block, the heavy gum is evenly applied, 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 in Very Fine condition and can be considered as an AD-KB Transitional Imprint. Another example of this imprint is presented above as a Block of 12 CS12/568.

$700.00

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