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The E-Sylum: Volume 19, Number 46, November 13, 2016, Article 7

WHITMAN JEFFERSON NICKEL FOLDER PRINTING PLATE

Author David Lange is an avid researcher and collector of early coin collecting boards, folders and albums. See his website (linked below) for information on his excellent books on the topic. He submitted this note about a great recent discovery. Thanks! -Editor

Whitman printing plate - Jefferson 5c #1 Whitman printing plate - Jefferson 5c #3

I'm attaching images of a printing plate that I recently acquired and an example of the printed folder. As the 1984 letter from Dick Yeo (aka R. S. Yeoman) explains, these plates were obsolete by then and were being sent to some of Whitman's better customers in thanks for their loyalty.

Whitman printing plate - Jefferson 5c #2 I already had two such plates from the Sixth Edition of Whitman folders (1965-67), but these are for Liberty Seated titles that were poor sellers, and I believe the plates were never utilized (I haven't found a match in 35 years of searching). This new one for Jefferson Nickels dates from the Eighth Edition (1968-78), and I actually have a folder of the same design. Whether this particular plate was the one that printed my copy is probably impossible to determine, but at least I can display the two side by side. Note that the plate includes the spine text, as that was the only other part of the cover that had any printing.

Needless to say, I'm a buyer of any such tools relating to the production of coin boards, folders and albums.

To visit Dave's CoinCollectingBoards web site, see:
http://www.coincollectingboards.com/

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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