Sc. #2123


Sc. #2123a

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3.4¢ School Bus (BEP)
Water-Activated Coils of 500 and 3000
Scott# 2123 Plate # 1, 2 (Overall Tagging)
Scott# 2123a Plate # 1, 2 (Untagged - Overprinted with Precancel Bars and Nonprofit Org. CAR-RT SORT)
Series Transportation
Issue Date & City June 8, 1985, Arlington, Virginia
Nationwide Sale June 9, 1985
Designer Lou Nolan, McLean, Virginia
Art Director Derry Noyes (CSAC)
Typographer Bradbury Thompson (CSAC)
Modeler Ronald C. Sharpe (BEP)
Engravers Kenneth R. Kipperman, vignette, Gary J. Slaght, lettering (Both BEP)
To Press / Initial Quantity April 1985 /  115,000,000
Coil Sizes (#2123) 500, (#2123a) 500, 3000
Printer Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, DC.
Press Cottrell (801, 803)
Process Intaglio
Where Printed Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, DC.
Where Processed Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, DC.
Plate Size & Interval 864 stamps per revolution with two plates of 18 x 24 / plate # every 24 stamps
Paper & Gum Type I, Water-Activated
Tagging Type Overall and Untagged
Perf Gauge 9.8 Vertically
Color Green
Overall Size (w x h) apx. 0.87 x 0.96 in. / 22.1 x 24.4 mm
Earliest Known Use May 25, 1985
Note: There are joint lines on the right side of the plate number stamp on this printing.
Note: Plates 1 and 2 were paired together on the same press run.
A strip with two plate numbers will show 2 different numbers as above.
Note: Precancel line gaps exist at 1R, 2R, 3R and LG.
Varieties: Chill-roller doubling on some rolls of tagged stamps.