Page 12 - Charles Shreve - William H Gross United States 1847 Issue

B. Plate Varieties Double Transfers
Type "E" - The "Mower Shift"
Type "F" - The "Wagshal S.hift"

Recent research now indicates that the Type "E" or "The Mower Shift" may not be a double transfer
but rather plate scratches or flaws caused by some foreign object on the plate as it does not show the
constant doubling of the lines attributed to double transfers. Position unknown.

Brown e Type "E" Red brown

V
7o p~ cf~h t' £ JiE~Q-C 6)

v~~lut/~

//c_ .. _/~/K
, .

i

]A 9, 18??, to Rochester, NY. "The Mower Shift" is in the upper stamp.
Only known vertical pair showing this variety

Type "F"

Type "F" - The "Wagshal Shift"- Double transfer of the top frame line
and the upper part of side frame line, "U" and "Post Office". e
Six copies are recorded