Friday, August 9, 2024

Doubled frame on 2 pesos cream

 I have two of these specimens. Luckyly, they are from two different paper printings.

The first one is a 2PCL2, a clay paper, and it shows some acid cleaning (which is easy to spot by the size of the white areas being slightly larger, notice it by comparing REPUBLICA ARGENTINA for both of these stamps).





The second specimen is a 2P1L, and it has more pronounced frame doubling.


This stamp has one of the most common late period 2p plate varieties: