I'm attaching images of a printing plate that I recently acquired and an example of the printed folder. As the 1984 letter from Dick Yeo (aka R. S. Yeoman) explains, these plates were obsolete by then and were being sent to some of Whitman's better customers in thanks for their loyalty.

I already had two such plates from the Sixth Edition of Whitman folders (1965-67), but these are for Liberty Seated titles that were poor sellers, and I believe the plates were never utilized (I haven't found a match in 35 years of searching). This new one for Jefferson Nickels dates from the Eighth Edition (1968-78), and I actually have a folder of the same design. Whether this particular plate was the one that printed my copy is probably impossible to determine, but at least I can display the two side by side. Note that the plate includes the spine text, as that was the only other part of the cover that had any printing.

Needless to say, I'm a buyer of any such tools relating to the production of coin boards, folders and albums.

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