The 10 centes stamp III type machine-made paper
(July 1857)
Type III – Machine-made paper – Cleansed coat of arms - Plate B
Common characteristic of the 10 CENTES cliché :
- tip of the lower internal right ornament long and pointed (in the coat of arms frame);
- number “1” not connected with the superior line in the value frame;
- tip of the lower right ornament, in the coat of value frame, (under “S.”) short and flat with a little color dot;
- defective in the middle line of the “E” in CENTES;
- small sign on the external right side of the coat of arms (in the high part, near the acorn).
Type III - Machine-made paper:
Electrotype.
The new cliché comes from an old Ib type, cleansed and corrected; you can see, for instance, the second “E” of CENTES complete at bottom (on the contrary in the Ib type it was broken);
The number “0” of 10 remain defective and open at the top right (as in the Ib type).
With this cliché we have two plates: A e B.
The A plate is formed from cliché cleansed (the coat of arms) in three directions; the B plate is formed from cliché cleansed (the coat of arms) in two direction (in the A plate the dots in the coat of arms are more regular and similar).
The estimated number of copies of this stamp machine-made paper are 815.000.