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This pattern is a broken pin pattern of Smith Gray & Co's original control pattern 3. The last known control pattern 3 was recorded on cover 6/1/1910. The first known control pattern 134 was recorded on cover 7/1/1910. Most likely the 1 & 4 pin didn't break at the same time. The thought is that the 1 pin broke first, thus stamps perforated as 13 would have been assumed to have come from the Cosmopolitan Magazine's machine. Covers are unknown, this is only theory. |
