Sc. #2132 (Type I)


Sc. #2132a (Type I)


Sc. #2132b (Type II)


12¢ Stanley Steamer (BEP)
Water-Activated Coils of 500 and 3000
Scott# 2132 Plate # 1, 2 (Overall Tagging)
Scott# 2132a Plate # 1, 2 (Type I) (Untagged - Overprinted with Precancel Bars and PRESORTED FIRST-CLASS SORT)
Scott# 2132b Plate # 1 (Type II) (Untagged - Overprinted with Precancel Bars and PRESORTED FIRST-CLASS SORT)
Scott# 2132c Plate # 1, 2 (Type I) (Tagging Omitted) (Not Bureau Precanceled)
Series Transportation
Issue Date & City Cottrell - April 2, 1985, Kingfield, Maine / B Press - September 3, 1987, Washington, DC
Nationwide Sale April 3, 1985
Designer Ken Dallison, Indian River, Ontario, Canada
Art Director Howard Paine (CSAC)
Typographer Bradbury Thompson (CSAC)
Modeler Esther Porter (BEP)
Engravers Gary Chaconas, vignette, Gary J. Slaght, lettering (Both BEP)
To Press / Initial Quantity Cottrell - February 1985 /  #2132 - 29,625,000, #2132a - 85,904,000
B Press - May 1987 / 54,000,000
Coil Size (#2132) 500, (#2132a) 500, 3000, (#2132b) 3000
Printer Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, DC
Press #2132 & 2132a - Cottrell (801, 803), #2132b - B Press (701)
Process Intaglio
Where Printed Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, DC
Where Processed Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, DC
Plate Size & Interval Cottrell - 864 stamps per revolution with two plates of 18 x 24 / plate # every 24 stamps
B Press - 936 stamps per revolution of 18 x 52 / plate # every 52 stamps
Paper & Gum Water-Activated Type I
Tagging Type Overall and Untagged
Perf Gauge 9.8 Vertically
Color Blue
Overall Size apx. 0.87 x 0.96 in. / 22.1 x 24.4 mm
Earliest Known Use April 3, 1985
Note: #2132 - There are joint lines on the right side of the plate number stamp on this printing.
#2132b - There are no joint lines on this printing from the B Press.
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 5L, 4L, 3L, 1L and LG.
Note: Type I - Wording "Stanley Steamer 1909" is 18mm.
Type II - Wording "Stanley Steamer 1909" is 17.5mm.
Varieties: A 'rain crack' spans two rows of some stamps from plate 1. This constant plate variety consists of many small vertical cracks at position 2R.

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