Position 70

  • Early Printing / Impression ancienne
  • Impression tardive / Late Printing
Perforation:
Perforation:
Early and Late Proof Images
Calder's notes
Guide line passes through the foot of the South East "7" through the extreme East part of the shading of the South East "1" and touches the the West side of the dot after the "d" in the North East spandrel; short entry on the East side of the North East spandrel; dot in the East oval ornament lined towards the North side of the interior a little East; dot in the West oval ornament is in the white space at East end centre 1/2 on West.
Kershaw's notes
There are only very faint weaknesses TR and LR adjacent to the short transfers.There is a dot in the end of the RH oval towards the top of the oval hatch lines, and a strong guide dot centre left. The vertical guide line cuts through the top of the "E" of "POSTAGE" and the bottom of the "TS" of "CENTS.
Morel's notes
Guide dot at left centre, vertical guideline at right through "E", "st" and "7" of right "17" and weak transfer at right backround between "d." and "stg". The stamp shown also has a few spots typical of plate pitting, most visible in ENTS letters of CENTS  and in the P of postage. Those may occur on a portion of printing order, and are not constant. They are identified by orange (instead of red) contour.

Stamps from printing orders 1 to 5A were perf. 11.75, stamps from printing orders 5B to 7 were perf. 12 x 11.75 and those from printing orders 8 to 12 were perf. 12.