Huck Press experimental plate proof, 1957. Creator: Bureau of Engraving and Printing

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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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