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Canada #4ix.
Relief Break Plate Flaw. VF used example of the 3p Beaver imperf, showing a clear example of the constant "relief break" plate flaw. The "relief break" refers to a crack or scratch on the steel transfer roll. This break appears as a thin jagged line that starts near the beaver's front paw and proceeds upwards through the beaver's body, through the "R" of the "VR", and into the white portrait oval just below the "P" of "POSTAGE". From there it branches into two elements that flow through the main portrait frame and out through the top and right sides of the impression. Like many flaws caused by deep scratches or cracks on the transfer roll or plate, this flaw appears differently from stamp to stamp. Not to be confused with the position 31 "cracked plate". Estimate =
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