Description Of The Third Matrix
In 1935, the second matrix was used to create two galvanized plates with a year identifier of 1935. The stamps produced from those two plates, typically in an ultramarine color, proved unsatisfactory. As with the negative for the first matrix, the negative for the second matrix had not been preserved by the printer.
Thus, in 1936, the printers were forced to create yet a third matrix, using a completely new negative. The same black prints from the 1934 offset that appeared in the second matrix were used again, but once more newly arranged into a ten by ten array. Thus, while plate flaws were repeated, they now appeared in entirely different positions.
The plate flaw found in position 100 on the first matrix (and in position 70 in the second matrix) had now been moved to position 16 in the third matrix. A new plate flaw is found, however, in position 91: from the bottom right of the value tablet a white line extends downward to touch the tip of the tendril below. In addition, the stress frame below positions 91 and 100 does not break as it did for the other matrices but instead passes through the vertical line of perforations at the edges of the pane. The black prints were not archived, but the Postal museum does have a single negative marked "new".
Only two plates were taken from the third matrix. They bore the year identifier 36 and the sequence numbers 1 and 2. However, the stamps they produced were inferior even to those produce by the 1935 plates they replaced. Their spacing was regular but oversized and their contours were blurred, which made the stamps appear as though they had been printed from very worn plates. The color for the entire release was in a light dirty-grey-blue tone. Thus, the printers had to revert back to the second matrix.
