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A single stamp is all that is needed to
distinguish the Farley Special Printing of this stamp, if it
is imperforate it is the Special Printing. Any difference in
shade is incidental.
* The 9¢ Glacier National Park Special Printing, Scott 764,
was issued without gum. Some of these sheets were gummed in
1940 when provision was made to add gum to the Farley sheets
if the owner wished it. According to Sloane
the sheets were to be returned to the Post Office Department
who would pass the sheets on to the Bureau for gumming. Only
the National Parks sheets, Scott's 756-765, and the National
Park Souvenir sheets, Scott's 769 and 770 were to have gum
added.
This Farley sheet was issued as a sheet of 200 stamps,
printed by the flat plate method, with four panes of 50
separated by guide lines. In the very center of the sheet
the horizontal and vertical guide lines crossed, creating
collectible pairs with guide line between, as well as a
center-line block. The margins of the sheets had arrows at
the end of the guide lines, creating collectible arrow
blocks.
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