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BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING. Huck Press experimental plate proof,1957. Creator: Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

Huck Press experimental plate proof, 1957. During the 1950s and 1960s, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing adopted state-of-the-art printing technologies that transformed stamp production. The new Giori (1956) and Huck 9-Color (1966) presses printed eye-catching, multi-color stamps that celebrated diversity, popular culture, the arts, and the space program.;Testing the Huck-Cottrell press, Bureau employees produced experimental printing plates from master dies dating back to the 1930s. They printed this proof from one of the plates.
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Huck Press experimental plate proof,1957. Creator: Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
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Huck Press experimental plate proof, 1957. During the 1950s and 1960s, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing adopted state-of-the-art printing technologies that transformed stamp production. The new Giori (1956) and Huck 9-Color (1966) presses printed eye-catching, multi-color stamps that celebrated diversity, popular culture, the arts, and the space program.;Testing the Huck-Cottrell press, Bureau employees produced experimental printing plates from master dies dating back to the 1930s. They printed this proof from one of the plates.
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ink • engraving
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1963 x 2247 px | 12.6 MB
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16.6 x 19.0 cm | 6.5 x 7.5 in (300 dpi)
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