The 45 centes stamp III type machine made paper

(September 1856)

III Type – Machine made paper – Cleansed coat of arms

The 45 CENTES cliché comes from 30 CENTES I type cliché; some characteristics of 45 CENTES, for this reason, are the same of it:

- “S” of CENTES connected to the tip of the superior left ornament of the value frame;

- “S” of CENTES defective in the left superior part (broken);

- defective in the left part of the lily;

- dot of color in the superior line of the value frame (between 45 and CENTES).

Type III - Machine made paper:

- electrotype;

- number “45” fixed, as in the II type, more on the left side compared with the I type (the tip of the superior left ornament in the value frame is in the higher middle of the “4”; between “5” and “C” there are 0,6 mm);

- on the superior line of the value frame, on the left compared with the tip of the superior left ornament and e over the vertical left line of the “4” there is a little dot of color;

- the color of these stamps are: blue, bright blue, cobalt blue and deep sea blue.

The stamps of III type can be divided into: A or B plate. The A plate has the cliché cleaned in three direction; the B plate has the cliché cleaned in two direction (in the A plate the dot in the coat of arms are more regulars and similar).

45 centes III type:

first stamp: blue – edge of sheet; second stamp: bright blue – edge of sheet.