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<p>[QUOTE="gsalexan, post: 4895660, member: 24274"]The impression number on my Monticello is 940642A and it was pulled Jan. 2, 1948 -- so probably just a few months after yours. The BEP Building proof I have is numbered 610603A -- exactly eight impressions before yours! My guess is they pulled a batch of those proofs as give-aways. I don't have a precise date for that one, but I would guestimate it's from the late 1930s. And that would put your Supreme Court proof at around the mid-1940s, though the clothing looks a little earlier.</p><p><br /></p><p>Peter Huntoon provided me with a list of the logbook volumes, showing which numbers correspond to the span of dates. It's not complete, but it does help narrow down the year for many of these blue numbers. Somewhere in the early 1920s the numbering restarted, but the A suffix doesn't show up until the 1930s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Proof impressions grew exponentially around the 1920s. In 1904, the Bureau was averaging roughly 4000 proof impression per month. By 1911 that number was up to 4600 a month, then 5,500 by 1921. But by 1928 they were averaging over 45,000 proof impressions per month. The most likely explanation is the production growth of National Bank Notes and stamps.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are examples of how the typestyle changed over the years. The first impression number is from the 1880s, the second is 1921, the last is 1948.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1181372[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gsalexan, post: 4895660, member: 24274"]The impression number on my Monticello is 940642A and it was pulled Jan. 2, 1948 -- so probably just a few months after yours. The BEP Building proof I have is numbered 610603A -- exactly eight impressions before yours! My guess is they pulled a batch of those proofs as give-aways. I don't have a precise date for that one, but I would guestimate it's from the late 1930s. And that would put your Supreme Court proof at around the mid-1940s, though the clothing looks a little earlier. Peter Huntoon provided me with a list of the logbook volumes, showing which numbers correspond to the span of dates. It's not complete, but it does help narrow down the year for many of these blue numbers. Somewhere in the early 1920s the numbering restarted, but the A suffix doesn't show up until the 1930s. Proof impressions grew exponentially around the 1920s. In 1904, the Bureau was averaging roughly 4000 proof impression per month. By 1911 that number was up to 4600 a month, then 5,500 by 1921. But by 1928 they were averaging over 45,000 proof impressions per month. The most likely explanation is the production growth of National Bank Notes and stamps. Here are examples of how the typestyle changed over the years. The first impression number is from the 1880s, the second is 1921, the last is 1948. [ATTACH=full]1181372[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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