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Significance of this exhibit. For the student of Panama and Canal Zone philately and of the American Bank Note Company this exhibit shows the progression from original photographs to photo reduction including the hand drawn essay and its approval by Panama, the approved die proof, the key pieces of the approved plate proofs and the die numbering system. To conclude this exhibit the 1933 cancellation plate proofs are overlaid with the shipping and stamp invoices and top two rows of the finished stamp. It also confirms that an error had been made when the wrong Foreign Order Number was engraved on the vignette plate.

Background. On November 29, 1919 the Canal Zone placed an order for 50,000 fifty cent and one dollar stamps with Panama and included photographs to be used for the designs. Under the Taft Agreement of 1904 Panama was obligated to supp[y these stamps and placed this order, as well as an identical one for Panama, with the American Bank Note Company. This series of beautifully engraved stamps is similar to the two issues of 1915 and 1917 featuring the Panama Canal.

Hjghlights of this exhibit. The notes on the production materials show how the ABNCo kept track of the design but several discoveries stand out.

• On the back of a photo of the Balboa Drydock on page 4 the Canal Zone authorities glued a Mexico stamp to indicate the orange frame color it wanted and a label with the title in English and denominated in American currency. Panama changed the language of th- stamp to Spanish and the currency to the Dana a balboa but surprisingly the language on the selvage of the stamp as issued was English and the currency was American.

o At the top-right of the 1920 frame plate proof on page 10 there are faint scratch marks. No attertti n had been paid to them until the 1933 cancellation proofs were examined more closely for this exhibit. h-11 the same position on the cancellation frame proof, pages 13-14, scratched into the plate is PALIMEA ST MP 50 Cent, F6272. Next to the center guide arrows TOP has been scratched into the Oats to help the printer avoid printing any "center inverts".

O The vignette cancellation plate, pages 15-16, has an error, the order number F-6267, engraved into the selvage. Above it a scratched inscription appears to have been burnished out leaving only a faint 50. Above the penciled out F-6267 on the cancellation vignette proof is this order not Panama and to the right, in pencil, the correct order number F6272.

Febmary 2, 1920 Rejected Essay February 16, 1920 Approved Essay

ABC© photowmpne of essays, DIQUE DE BALBOA, CANAL DE PAM AMA

Published ReezirenL An article based on these materials has been published in the Canal Zone Philatelist and COPACARTA September 2014.

Unless otherwise noted all pre-production and cancellation materials exhibited here are unique.

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