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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1178041, member: 66&quot;]Questions, do they have records of the disposition of every other printing plate?&nbsp; Most of them?&nbsp; Any of them?&nbsp; If they don&#039;t have records of what happened to them how can they say they weren&#039;t disposed of?&nbsp; Do they have any records paying an engraver to produce the plate?&nbsp; Did their contract with the printer specify who would own the plates?&nbsp; Often times printers were paid to produce currency, and inorder to do so they created printing plates.&nbsp; The plates belonged to the printer.&nbsp; This tends to still be the way it is when private firms create money for governments, the printing firm owns the plates, not the customer.&nbsp; Case in point is all the material recently coming out of the American Bank Note archives.&nbsp; Some of those plates and printing rolls were used to create state notes.&nbsp; Some were used to create Federal Government notes.&nbsp; But the ABC retained ownership and today the material they have sold off is now owned by the collectors that bought it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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