US~The backward rebel.
'REBEL' RARITIES During tlie Civil War the Confederacy was as extravagant in printing stamps as in printing money; today a good "rebel" stamp can be bought for as little as 25 cents. But Confederate Provisional—issued by local postmasters from June 1, .1861, when they quit using U.S. stamps, and Oct. 14, 1861, when the first Confederate stamps appeared-—are extremely rare. They were so appealing that such removed collectors as King Fouad of Egypt, Farouk's father, and John Drinkwater, the British dramatist, specialized in them. Nearly all of these Provisionals were crudely printed by local newspapers or in small print shops. The printer of the Mount Lebanon stamp was so inexperienced that after cutting the parallel lines and circle into the back of a discarded woodcut, he spelled out the letters in positive form by hammering type faces into the wood. The result was that when he printed on paper with the woodcut, he got a reverse impression. But the postmaster was too preoccupied with the war to quibble, and he sold the issue anyway, scribbling with ink over the reversed "5" on the stamp to invalidate it. http://cjoint.com/data/ghqlBsSiuL.htm This cover was owned by "Pacificus". Anybody know who "Pacificus" was behind the pseudonym? |
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