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<p>[QUOTE="gsalexan, post: 4894557, member: 24274"]These are all very interesting! I didn't really understand what those blue impression numbers were until about five years ago, when someone at the BEP Historical Research Center explained it to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>The numbers were a way to log "working proofs" that were printed for various production reasons. The numbers were noted in big logbooks, starting in the 1870s. The proofs were supposed to be returned or destroyed, but obviously many of them were kept. Around 1900, the Bureau restarted the numbering in a new set of logbooks. No one seems to know what became of the earlier books -- they may be somewhere in the National Archives. Impression numbers that end in "A" may actually be a third reset of the numbering, although that's a little uncertain.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have two proofs that match yours, Monticello and the BEP Bldg., with very close impression numbers. I will dig those up tomorrow -- I was able to obtain specific dates on those two. I think the notations on your proofs are just background details, not the dates they were actually pulled.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gsalexan, post: 4894557, member: 24274"]These are all very interesting! I didn't really understand what those blue impression numbers were until about five years ago, when someone at the BEP Historical Research Center explained it to me. The numbers were a way to log "working proofs" that were printed for various production reasons. The numbers were noted in big logbooks, starting in the 1870s. The proofs were supposed to be returned or destroyed, but obviously many of them were kept. Around 1900, the Bureau restarted the numbering in a new set of logbooks. No one seems to know what became of the earlier books -- they may be somewhere in the National Archives. Impression numbers that end in "A" may actually be a third reset of the numbering, although that's a little uncertain. I have two proofs that match yours, Monticello and the BEP Bldg., with very close impression numbers. I will dig those up tomorrow -- I was able to obtain specific dates on those two. I think the notations on your proofs are just background details, not the dates they were actually pulled.[/QUOTE]
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