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Question
How many stamps are there in a truly complete Great British Line Engraved Stamp Collection?
A hundred? A thousand? Surely not more!! If you look at my line Engraved section of the site, you will see that the first plate used for the Penny stamp was obviously plate 1 (actually 1a and 1b) and the last was plate 225. Plates were replaced as they wore out. A few were not used at all, mainly as they failed quality control. First you have the Penny Black, plates 1a through to 11 (11 being very scarce as it only had a short life).
2d Blue, plates 1 to 15.
Penny Reds plates 1b through to 225.
½d Reds, Plates 1 to 20.
1½d Reds, Plates 1 and 3.
All with 240 stamps to a sheet (½d had 480, as they were only half the size), each stamp with different check letters at least in the bottom two corners (this, along with the watermark were security measures against fakes. Top left was AA working across the AL, then down to the T row). So, to have a truly complete collection of line engraved GB stamps, you would be talking about 60,000+ stamps!
This figure is as per the Concise catalogue, if it was to Specialised, then it's a lot more!

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