Reprint Hot List Newspaper Collectors Society of America's Newspaper Edition Reprint Hot List Carefully compare your specimen with the guidelines presented below. To jump directly to the newspaper edition you have in question, click the newspaper title and date line. Doing so will take you directly to the specifications of that issue. The title in the original is of well-formed Roman capital and lower case letters. The period after the title must be perfectly round.
Originals are on watermarked rag linen.
Hold your specimen up to a bright light to see if the watermark is present. Reprints are slightly smaller. 1770 Page 1, column 1, in the two-line quotation from Shakespeare the first line should be indented further than the second. In the original, the Goddard article runs over two inches into the second column. In the original the title is quite readable.