CORNER LETTERS

2) VARIETIES

With the exception of Die 2 plates 50 and 51, the corner letters were inserted using a hand punch. This often resulted in heavilly misplaced letters, particularly on early plates.

It took many strikes of the puch to produce the letter. Ocasionally the puch would move between strikes resulting in th doubling of letters.

In some cases the incorrect letter was punched. This would be corrected but would almost certainly leave traces of the original letter. This can be seen in the two pictures above where originally a letter 'K' had been punched.

Perhaps as a result of the correct letter not being available, another letter would be used and then hand modified, such as the letter 'P' being converted to an 'R'.