1c 1851 Plate 1-Late Stamps

Txstamp, do you have a copy of 74L1L?

widglo - I guess there is some sort of domain spam block between us, as I didn't receive anything from you via email. Bummer.

jaxom - I might have that, not sure (I'm not at home), but I don't have a scanner good enough yet. I finally have the table space for one, and I fully plan to get a scanner this year.

txstamp, he is working out a few changes and bugs that we discussed last night. We will make sure you get a trial copy to play with. Keep in mind that most work is on plate 1 late at this time.

Dudley, would you like a copy as well?

Rick - you have my email already, you can just email me directly. Thanks!

I finished the new guide dot chart for plate 1 late, left pane.
The new chart has new and larger images.
Here is a copy of the old chart and the new chart.
What do you guys think?

I have finally finished the left pane images, the ID images, the new guide dot chart, verifying two reconstructions and the recut images for plate 1 late. Only missing 1 image for position 74L1L. It took me 6 weeks for this project. Here is the new recut chart (at 15%).

Those all look terrific, thanks for the work.

It sure is nice that you were able to get that right pane of 1L scanned, into the database. It gives us some good confidence in the plating, to say the least. As you know, there are some subtle errors in Neinken on recut lengths, etc in the drawings, so this is great.

Thanks Txstamp! The left pane is not as uniform as the right pane but it still looks good. It was a lot more work selecting images. Sometimes I had to choose different stamps for the top and bottom of each image and adjust the color to make them look like they came from the same stamp. I tried to pick the more worn images to show the recut better. I also collected data from my ID images for our plating program. The ID images were a lot of work too. I need to make some ID images for the right pane also. I have not had any feedback on the ID images, whether they are useful or not. When I start on the right pane, I may ask Don to move the first column images from the full pane to the far right column marked Ashbrook images to give me another column for more images. Plate 2 is up in the air since I do not have enough images to work with. Same with plate 1 early, plate 3 and plate 4. I wish I had permission to use any image on the forums for the database. That would add a lot of images for the database that I do not have and help with the plating program.

Sometime this year - I will start sending you scans of my material.
That is my new years resolution.

Long time on here, but newly registered. I've got what I'm pretty sure is 6L1L, perfed, so Scott 23. Just need confirmation that I have the plating correct. All of the plating marks seem to match. Bought as a 24, so got it at a great price. Recut twice at bottom.

Yes, it is 6L1L. Good job.

I have put detail images in collage format in the far right position for the left pane of plate 1 late. There are only two spots left unfilled. They are 65L1L and 74L1L. Take look at the database and let me know what you think of the detail images, good or bad.

Rick - Outstanding work!

It's hard to follow jaxom's work with posting images. Great work by the way. I did use the charts to validate this pair, 49R1L & 50R1L.



49R1L

50R1L

Moyock13, which chart helped you most in the plating?
Your images are a bit washed out. You can fix the images by lowering the saturation and lightening it a bit. Here is your image cleaned up.