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Originally Posted by Runscott
Also, how did they survive until 1919 (when the same ones were used for Coupons)? If they were stones with an oily substance applied, and there were multiple stones for multiple colors, all for each card image, there must have been an awful lot of oily stones lying around. How did they keep them safe?
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I was trying to research a bit more on the printing locations/time of the coupons to see if somehow we could determine what might have happened to these plates/stones. I find it odd that no uncut sheets or stones surfaced when so many scraps, printer proofs and rejects are floating around.