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Plate - Intaglio - Intaglio plates for India Lithographed. Various stamps. Defaced. Steel. India. Stone: 'India 1854 Essays and Dies. One 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 seprately engraved on copper faced with steel, the seventh of which [A] was used as the die for the stamps.'