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Plate - Letterpress - 1879 tender for the 1d contract: 1d Letterpress plate 6x6. Ceylon large head. Steel. Great Britain. Stone: 'Plate of One Penny Designs. 13th May, 1879: 'Finishing Experimental Postage Plate 6 Designs, 36 on pl. (surface).' A plate of 6 x 6 subjects, screwed onto a wood base. The latter has no room at the right to accommodate the verticle strip of five designs found on later prints from a similar plate. Lettered WW, plate no. 1'. Perkins Bacon.