{"id":4620,"date":"2020-10-16T13:48:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T11:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hps.gr\/notos2021\/?page_id=4620"},"modified":"2020-11-08T11:42:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T09:42:35","slug":"the-reconstruction-of-the-lhh-20-lepta-printing-plate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hps.gr\/notos2021\/index.php\/the-reconstruction-of-the-lhh-20-lepta-printing-plate\/","title":{"rendered":"The reconstruction of the LHH 20 lepta printing plate"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 1861 20 lepta plate of the Large Hermes Head had been dismantled sometime at the dawn of the 20th century, as indicated by Tryphon Constantinides in his Etude<\/em> in 1933. The pieces were initially kept in the National Printing House during the early years and subsequently in the Philatelic and Postal Museum following its establishment in the 1970s.
\nOut of the 150 clich\u00e9s, 121 have survived to date, the rest are still missing, since at least the days of the Etude<\/em>, where the missing pieces are clearly mentioned.<\/p>\n

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In 2019, following a NOTOS 2021 OC inquiry at the Philatelic and Postal Museum, permission was granted to attempt the reconstruction of the plate. Stephanos Calliga, a renowned connoisseur of the Large Hermes Heads, undertook the task to study thoroughly and exhaustively the 121 clich\u00e9s in order to plate them.
\nOn 14 October 2020 he had verified the plate position of all 121 loose pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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20 lepta stamp<\/td>\n20 lepta plate clich\u00e9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/span><\/a>The 20 lepta reconstructed 121-clich\u00e9 (recto)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The 20 lepta reconstructed 121-clich\u00e9 plate (verso)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The empty base of the clich\u00e9s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 1861 20 lepta plate of the Large Hermes Head had been dismantled sometime at the dawn of the 20th century, as indicated by Tryphon Constantinides in his Etude in 1933. The pieces were initially kept in the National Printing House during the early years and subsequently in the Philatelic and Postal Museum following its establishment in the 1970s. Out…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4620","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hps.gr\/notos2021\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hps.gr\/notos2021\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hps.gr\/notos2021\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hps.gr\/notos2021\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hps.gr\/notos2021\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4620"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/hps.gr\/notos2021\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4737,"href":"https:\/\/hps.gr\/notos2021\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4620\/revisions\/4737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hps.gr\/notos2021\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}