4c Lincoln, Coil (1058). Mint N.H. joint line strip of six, with horizontal scribed lines at bottom next to parallel joint lines, Fine, very rare, this issue was printed using a large Cottrell rotary printing press which could accommodate two 432-subject coil plates (18 rows of 24 subjects) which comprised two plates without gutters and took up the same amount of space as two normal 400-subject sheet stamp plates, the joint line consists of ink that gathered in the space between the plates, with horizontal scribed lines on either side that were used to help align the centers of the adjacent paired plates on the press, we are indebted to Ken Lawrence for his explanation of how these were printed

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