If you look in the lower right corner of the Elvis sheets, some additional information is printed during the personalization process. The first Washington 2006 Elvis-personalized United Nations sheet begin with 20060531NPRT followed by some additional identifying numbers. Obviously, this is the date these sheets were personalized 2006 05 31 or 31 May 2006. I don't know what the NPRT or rest of the numbers stand for; we're going to have to ask UNPA.
The second Elvis sheet has the following detail:
The first part reads 20060608NPRT. Therefore these sheets were printed on 8 June 2006. According to Marlen Coins and Stamps, the blue and red Elvis sheet was printed in a quantity of 600. The second Elvis sheet was printed in a quantity of 400. This clears up the discrepancy of the print totals, since we now know that 600 Elvis Type 1 were printed, and 400 Elvis Type 2 were printed, for a total between both sheets of 1,000. This only leaves 3,500 non-Elvis sheets for collectors. Given Marlen's detailed knowledge of the print quantities, I would surmise that they were the dealer that originally ordered these sheets, and all other dealers are selling the sheets on a secondary basis.
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