200h Type III
Like the other issues in this series, production of the 200h Type III stamp started with a strip of five dies. In this case, the printers used two such strips to form a block of ten dies which in turn they reproduced ten times to form a ten by ten pane of 100 stamps. Each die in both strips can be uniquely identified, albeit with small variations and in some instances, additional plate flaws. Sometimes stamps have the imprint of a stress bar in their selvage.
The most complete description of the 200h stamp, Jindřich Látal's 200h Hospodářství a věda 1923, published in 2003, named these ten unique dies using the first ten letters of the Czech alphabet: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, ch, and i. Non-Czech readers might find the digraph ch confusing, but rather than substitute another arbitrary Latin letter, Knihtisk has retained this Czech diagraph designation. Descriptions of the ten dies may be found by following the links at the left or in the block of ten dies layout below.
A magnifying glass is required to facilitate identification. In terms of identification difficulty, Dies a, c, e, f, and h are quite easy; Dies d, ch, and g are moderately difficult; Die i may present problems; and Die b is quite difficult to identify.
Typical Block of Ten Layout
| a | b | c | d | e |
| f | g | h | ch | i |
Type III Exemplar
