The 1916 Independence series was the first set of stamps printed in offset-litho by the Casa de Moneda de la Nacion. On the whole Argentina was one of the first countries adopting that printing process after it had been developed in the United States of America around 1903-1905 by Ira Washington Rubel. The Casa de Moneda acquired the English printing press already in October 1913!
The USA however used this method for a very short period after 1918! The Germans used it since 1920!
As we have shown in the various PyR postings the offset-litho cylinders had been made up photo-mechanically using a root block of 5x2 or 5x5 in which certain characteristics were reproduced and could be found in a frequency of 1:10 or 1:25. There is every reason to believe that this way of making up an offset-litho cylinder had been used in 1916 too!
1916 100 years of Independence
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4 times in a grand total of 20 3c stamps is too high a frequency. Note that the value tablet touches the right frame differently every time....
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A curly thing that caught ink!
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This goes as well for other values!4 times in a grand total of 20 3c stamps is too high a frequency. Note that the value tablet touches the right frame differently every time....
arc in left bottom corner and dot above the right value tablet:
The 1816-1916 tablet is NOT quite centred! Slightly moved to the right!
to be continued ...
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dot in 2nd "1":
The 1816-1916 tablet is NOT quite centred! Slightly moved to the right!
to be continued ...
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dot in 1st "1":
The 1816-1916 tablet is NOT quite centred! Slightly moved to the left!
the spaces between the vertical lines are different!
to be continued ...