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Experimental Huck-Cottrell Press certified plate proof, United States, 1957.
In 1955, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing purchased five Huck-Cottrell printing presses to replace the aging Stickney-model presses that dated from 1914. As they learned to use the new machines, BEP employees produced numerous experimental printing plates from master dies for stamps that dated back as far as the 1930s. This is a proof of one of these experimental plates, rarely seen by collectors or the public. |