2d Blue ES14 with Maltese Cross:

[Richudson]

Please would anybody be able to tell me what Plate No this stamp is and details about the Maltese Cross with a 'dot' in the centre?
Thanks in anticipation,
Richard Hudson.

[petrod]

Not sure about the MC, although it looks a bit like Kilmarnock. The stamp, I would say, is almost certainly Plate 3.

[Richudson]

Dear Petrod,

Thanks for your help, I read somewhere that dots in MXs could be Moffat, Kilmarnock, Glasgow or Liverpool. So will go with Kilmarnock for now.

Thanks,

Richard

[Richudson]

Dear Petrod,
I have found a match in Rockoff and Jackson's Maltese Cross Encyclopedia (Vol 1) and they list it as Liverpool in November 1843.
Thanks for your plating assistance, hope you concur with the images.

[Winston W]

Richard,

The Kilmarnock Special does have a dot in the centre, but yours is not that one.

Kilmarnock Special MX

I think yours is a common cross that could be from anywhere, with the dot being from the pin head, so transient.

[petrod]

As I said originally, I am not sure about the MC (don’t pay much attention to them in my own collection), but pretty certain about the plate. I find research into the history of the plates used for the imperforate line-engraved quite enough to be going on with