Broken Plate 1864 12 cuartos.

BROKEN PLATE AT SCOTT 63/EDIFIL 65

 

 

 

        This week new uncatalogued variety took place as far as in 1864. This year stamps once again since 1850 had the central motive of the Spanish Queen Isabel II. The serie consisted of 5 stamps with 4, 12 and 19 cuartos value as well as 1 and 2 reales value. They were printed in red, green, blue and pink, brown and pink, brown and blue colours respectively.

 

 

         Today we are going to focus on the 12 cuartos stamps, Scott 63 or Edifil 65 in green colour. More specifically, we will pay attention to the circle surrounding the figure of the Queen. As we can see in a common item, this circle is absolutly continous. We mark the zone were the plate will break with the pass of the time.

 

 

 

 

 

 



     As I have been going through different copies I have noticed one which shows how progressively this zone of the circle is weakening as we can onserve in this other stamp:

 

                                                             

 

      

 

       As you can imagine this situation was bound to end worse and finally the plate got broken in this zone. In the next two stamps we can see how the tear is tinny at the beginning and how it got bigger in tha last copies.

 

 

 

    

 

            To finish with, I must say that this variety is not catalogued in specialiced catalogues. I don't know the position of the complete leave where this frame tear took place, I am working to find it out.

 

            I hope you have liked this contribution and any comments are wellcome.