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Plate - Intaglio - 1854 Intaglio plates for India Lithographed ½ anna - eight stamps in a line. Defaced. Copper electroplated steel. India. Stone: 'India 1854 Essays and Dies. Half Anna Plate (III) [Roman numerals refer to plates in The Postage and Telegraph Stamps of British India (Stanley Gibbons 1907)]. A row of eight subjects on copper, each separately engraved by Numerodeen.'