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The 1/2c Belgrano has at least one characteristic that only occurs in the first printing - parallel watermark, symmetrical papermesh and one characteristic only in the version with no watermark. Of the other types of paper I have not enough copies to be sure I had to find them:













The "Belqrano" only in the first printing!

The dot in the "R" only in the no watermark printing!



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The 1c D.F. Sarmiento has 2 types when you look at the right bottom corner. Type I [is it really the oldest one??] has NO break, type II has a tiny break:



The tiny break:



1st column, 8th row:



6th column, 8th row:



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Other plate characteristics found in the 1/2c stamps without watermark:














The dot in "R" has been positioned by Alberto Robson:

biti » 31 Oct 2009 20:08 escribió:
Hi Rein: I have a block with 30 stamps from Rows 1 to 6 and columns 1 to 5. I numbered 1 to 10 in the first row 11 to 20 the second and so on.
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Position 31: The broken A in the last "A" of "Argentina
Position 32: a point in the "R" of "Republica""
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biti

Some more 1c D.F Sarmiento with the white horizontal line AND a broken frame in the upper right corner:

The 1c D.F. Sarmiento with the white dot stuck to the "R":

The 1c D.F. Sarmiento with the black "hockey-stick" in the upper right corner:

The 1c D.F. Sarmiento with the white dot stuck to the "R":

The 1c D.F. Sarmiento with the white dot stuck to the "R":







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The 1c D.F. Sarmiento most likely has a root block of 5x5 of which we can see 2 parts here with 2 major characteristics- the broken top frame and the white dot stuck to the "R":

Hi Rein, these stamps have some of the marks you described in your stamps, if you want I can scan the back to see the paper, thanks
Regards
Normando

Normando,

thank you, but why not use a high resolution to start with??? This way I cannot see a thing! NADA!

When you are scanning stamps always use the HIGHEST resolution your scanner allows you to!!!
Can you get 1200dpi? Use it! Even higher? OK!

The JPG files should have at least 150Kb; files of 50Kb or lower had better go to the litter box!

Rein at 1600 ppp I scan the reverse if need to see the paper and wmk.
Normando

Normando,

much better!

But you should try to find characteristics that will be repeated in other stamps! Like the characteristics I displayed. In offset-litho every stamp can has "something" that was just ephemeral - a tiny dust particle or such - so try to look for the repetition!

Rein
Ok I try to look similars repetitions, tks