From: jaSPAMc@gbr.online.com   
      
   On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:46:11 +0100, "David F."    
   found these unused words floating about:   
      
   >> Each country would have their version of the 'holy grail'. An   
   >> unissued, but prepared stamp or proof.   
   >>   
   >> For GB, you could consider the 'Abnormals' to be one such area. The   
   >> Colour Trials and obliteration removal tests to be another.   
   >>   
   >> There are a couple plates where only the imprimatur sheets (usually 5)   
   >> are known to have been printed and in some case only a couple stamps   
   >> from them survive.   
   >>   
   >> In the art world you're dealing with mostly "one of's", in the   
   >> manufacturing and printing world ... it's generally mass produced.   
   >> Hundreds per sheet, normally.   
   >>   
   >   
   >Would the SG.43, Plate 77 serve here, as an example ?   
   >   
   Paragraph three - some few copies.   
      
   Plates 69, 70, 75, 126 and 128 (supposedly) even had the imprimatur   
   extra sheets destroyed.   
      
   Plate 53, SG40, may have been in that category once, but some 101   
   copies have now been found. Still ... unpriced in SG Spec.   
      
   Of the five (or so) sheets made to get 'the' imprimatur, the rest   
   normally made it into use. "Waste not ..."   
      
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