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However, the bank note companies which producedour first stamps were not so adept in the art of makingthe transfers. Hence—and especially when a design was of difficult outline, as were the one- and ten-cent stampsof 1851-7—the transfer operator sometimes failed tomove his plate far enough to make a complete transferof the design. Thus we find on our printed stamps so-called "short-transfers." And, again, the operator mayhave made his first "light" transfer of the design out ofalignment and so would shift the position of the plateto its proper place. However, when he did so, the firstlight impression would, of course, remain on the plateand, when stamps were printed therefrom, these doubl-ings of lines would be apparent. Such are called "doubletransfers." Or, perhaps, after completing a plate, oneor more of the impressions were found not to print well—the transfer may have been too shallow. In such casesthe plate would sometimes be returned to the press and aneffort made to "re-enter" the transfer roll exactly intothe design. When such re-entry was successful, no visibleresults could be seen on the stamps but, when slightlyoff the original, the stamps resulting from this impressionwould show the error. Such are called "re-entries." |
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