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plate number
1. Philately. (See quot. 1912.)
1912Gloss. Philatelic Terms 19 Plate Numbers, numbers inserted in the margins of plates from which stamps are printed, indicating (in the case of British and British Colonial stamps) the order in which the plates for those particular values were made. 1934Neuphilologische Mitteilungen XXXV. 130 Stamp-collecting..plate number ‘number appearing in the margin of certain stamps’. 1971D. Potter Brit. Eliz. Stamps v. 63 In complete sheets all Bradbury Wilkinson printings bear a plate number, in the lower margin to the right; this consists of a number or a number and letter.
2. A serial number on the pages of some engraved music, which can indicate the chronological place of the score in the publisher's output.
1940Papers Amer. Musicological Soc. 1938 114 [Hoffmeister] made arrangements in 1784 with the publisher..to do the engraving for him... Work issued during this period either had no plate number engraved at the foot of the plates, or else used as an identifying device the opus number of the composition. 1942Music Library Assoc. Notes Dec. 1 Mathias Artaris..generally adds the initials ‘M.A.’ to his plate numbers. 1946O. E. Deutsch Music Publishers' Numbers 7 This list..is..only a preliminary compilation of titles and plate-numbers known to the authors. 1965Neighbour & Tyson (title) English music publishers' plate numbers in the first half of the nineteenth century. 1966J. H. Davies Musicalia xv. 139 The dating of music by publishers' plate-numbers and paper⁓makers' watermarks begins to achieve some degree of accuracy.
3. The registration number of a motor vehicle, exhibited on a plate.
1973‘D. Shannon’ No Holiday (1974) iv. 64 Hackett..got the plate number of the truck. |