I have come across 2 sites that have been helpfull to me -- http://www.quadrigaancients.com/web/ and http://www.webpressnotes.com/websearch.htm I have always been interested in obtaining a complete set of Web notes. Lately, through answering posts on this forum, i have looked into the series a bit more. The 2 sites i listed are the ones i have recently found that are most helpful. First off, i was only under the impression that web-fed notes were printed much like the normal notes ... notes were printed by district.. but instead of plate position leters and numbers... web-fed press notes had plated numbers. With reading and researching a bit, i found that there were 11 plates used (although some notes have a plate #12) and each web note has a special combination of front/back plates numbers .. thus making each district of each year having multiple of notes. I have found that a complete collection of 1988-a web notes is NOT a set including districts A,B,C,E,F,F*, and G ... Instead, a full set include the combinations of series, block, run # and plate number combinations. in the end, instead of 14 notes comprising the entire stretch of web-fed press notes .. if one counts all the 'unique' variables involved int he making of web-fed press notes... aquiring a 'full' set now includes some 240+ notes. to make matters worse, some notes have less then 5 known. I am guessing that normal notes could also be broken down into this same style of thinking, where each series could also be collected by block, run and plate position letters/numbers... but for 'normal' notes, the combination of all these variables would result in an astronomicaly huge number of notes - JUST to complete the series. So - Does ANYBODY else collect web-fed press notes in this manner -- or, if you collect them at all.. how do you collect them?
To me, collecting by runs/plate combos/blocks is too much of a headache. I rarely ever go past a note's series and district, and I only look at the plate numbers to check for mules. And that's if I can remember to check. On another forum, somebody was asking for a 1st run 2004A San Francisco $10 star...meaning the note he wanted had a serial number under 130,000. I pointed one out on E-Bay, but he wanted one that was graded and so he it passed it up. I had the note "watched", just to see what it would sell for. Here's the link: 2004A $10 Star So yeah, you could collect any note series in this manner. I can't imagine this working with the older/rarer notes though. The costs would be astronomical, and that's assuming that every possible combination printed still has a few examples surviving today. I think this is more of a "recent-note" collecting style, since those notes are easier to come by. It seems like such a painful & excrutiating way to collect! :rolling: For each his own, I guess. For the record, I read somewhere that nobody, not one single person, has ever managed to complete the full set of the 240+ web press notes. The first person to ever complete one will probably be a celebrity of sorts, at least among the paper collecting circles. I personally only own just one web note, but I think I'll stop here. :smile
its practicaly impossible for a single person to get the entire run lol, there are several notes where only 1-5 notes are known to exist .. now its not impossibles there are more of them rares notes still circulating, and will eventually add to that total .. but with so many web notes having so few.. i agree. the person to complete a FULL set will be famous ... Watch for my name
i picked up 16 seperate notes this weekend from various sources. I am up to about 20 seperate note/run/plate# combos, with about 3 duplicates. sooooo, i only need another 220+ lol. I do have something i am looking at that has a whole bunch of notes (with very few dups) that will almost double what i have. Ill prolly pick it up tommorrow if i decide on buying it
