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Looking Back #43 - More on the Eagle Carrier Stamps
Note: In Looking Back #22, I talked about the (US) Eagle
Carrier stamps of 1851. Here is an interesting posting from 2004 by Albumen in RCSD about Specimens of this stamp. "US specimen's are mainly sought by specialists. The first 'specimen' overprints appeared on the US 1861 Issue. Prior to that a control number was used on stamps exchanged with European governments as a way of defining the country's issues. Then, in 1875 the US Post Office wanted a complete sets of all US stamps to sell to the public at the Centennial fair in Philadelphia. The back of the book material was over- printed, but postage stamps were not because the dealers &etc. wanted the option to use them for postage. So we have revenue stamps and state department stamps etc. with the specimen 'D' overprint. Certain of these overprints are quite rare, but catalog values have lagged severely. I purchased an unlisted Eagle Carrier with specimen 'D' overprint from a dealer in Seattle a while back for $20. The imperforate stamp, with full original gum, evidently came from a sampling of first day's production for government approval way back in 1851. I don't know of an earlier issue with specimen overprint!" -a Posted by Albumen on Dec 2 2004, in rec.collecting.stamps.discuss |
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