All about the 22p Industry

[Rein]

There is hardly any knowledge available on the 22p Industry!

Let's see Holler first!



The photogravure version issued on 31.10.1962 and the offset-litho version someday in 1964....

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[Rein]

Bardi's book recognizes a few more versions of the 22p!




Just two versions of the photogravure stamp whereas I can show at least 3 versions!

The ZA 2 and the ZA 5 are more or less equally present in numbers in my collection...

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[Rein]

ZA 2 [or ZA 4] has an orthogonal watermark with a symmetrical paper wire structure whereas ZA 5 has an asymmetrical paper wire structure.

Bardi just refers to the ZA 2 version with the line of AЯ horizontally, whereas both horizontal and vertical occur!

Apart from this the density may differ!





The latter version has not yet been mentioned ....

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[Rein]

Bardi's ZA 5:







Orthogonal watermark, asymmetrical paper wire structure and horizontal direction of paper....

Plus continuous long lines!!!

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[Rein]

So far only one and the same direction of printing has been established: L [eft ink flow] for all types of paper.

"Plate flaws", the few I saw occur also on all types of paper accordingly assuming there was just one cyilnder!

ZA 2:









ZA 5:






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[Rein]

Bardi's ZA 5:







Orthogonal watermark, asymmetrical paper wire structure and horizontal direction of paper....

Plus continuous long lines!!!

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These lines also occur at the front!!! We have thus the transposed version!!





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[Rein]

In case there is any doubt about the transposed version!!



A clear "RA" watermark as seen from the back!



The "grooves" are at the back of the stamp hence the back of the stamp is the wire side of the Zárate paper in the "transposed" version. The "RA'" is the watermark we are supposed to see a the back of our stamps should the felt side have been the normally printed side - as I have always claimed!

It is clear now that the Casa de Moneda prepared the paper and gummed the felt side by DEFAULT. The dandy-roll for the Zárate paper will show us - should it exist still - the "RA", the "AЯ" will be at the felt side and the "RA" at the wire side... Just as we see it here now!

This also means that the continuous lines do NOT originate from the wire! As what was supposed to have happened with the few lines we saw in the earlier Zárate papers... The lines we see here are the result of later - in the production - phases like flattening, calandering cylinders...!?


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[Rein]

Judging from Bardi's price suggestion: 3.00, the transpose version is not too scarce






And the orientation of the blue lines also changed what is not surprising! Still an asymmetrical wire structure!



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[Rein]

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