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I recently obtained this page purporting to be trial color proofs. The presentation is disingenuous. In the earlier years of the 20th Century a stamp dealer was able to purchase the original plates used to print these stamps back in 1844. Per Scott, the plates were rusty and a limited attempt was made to clean up the rust, "No. 5L1 has been extensively reprinted in several colors," I have only see the six shown below, "distinguishable by the rust marks on the plate, which were mostly removed from the margins and gutters between stamps but remain within the stamp designs."
Somewhere there is a reference to a book written about the stamp dealer and his efforts to reprint these stamps but I cannot lay my hands on the reference at this time.
One of the reason that these and a variety of other local stamps were reprinted was because of the stamp albums of the day. They all had empty spaces for these local stamps and entrepreneurial stamp dealers were happy to reprint these and sell them to collectors who were happy to have something to put in their albums.
Here is a closeup of the brown stamp showing various rust markings. It appears though that not all dies in the plate had rust. Some of the above stamps look fresh as a daisy.
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I forgot to add that I have these both as loose stamps and hinged onto this sheet. One question I had to face was how to mount them in my US collection, perhaps others here have had to face that question.
As they were printed with the original dies I have decided to mount them with my other genuine local stamps but indicating that they are reprints.
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Beautiful Antonio, I've always been fascinated with locals. Many of them are somewhat crude but I think that's part of their charm. You have to really know what you're doing to buy them though.
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These were often included in the cheaper 'stamp packets' in the 1950s and 1960s. They made the color reprints for the 1942 APS convention.
Note the 'rust marks' on some of these reprints...
Your stamp is the second stamp in the second row.
There are many eBay listings which offer these souvenirs as real stamps and at what I think are ridiculous prices.
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American Letter Mail was created by Lysander Spooner, and was operated in the city of Philadelphia. Only two stamps were issued, the one pictured below being the more common.
I recently obtained this page purporting to be trial color proofs. The presentation is disingenuous. In the earlier years of the 20th Century a stamp dealer was able to purchase the original plates used to print these stamps back in 1844. Per Scott, the plates were rusty and a limited attempt was made to clean up the rust, "No. 5L1 has been extensively reprinted in several colors," I have only see the six shown below, "distinguishable by the rust marks on the plate, which were mostly removed from the margins and gutters between stamps but remain within the stamp designs."
Somewhere there is a reference to a book written about the stamp dealer and his efforts to reprint these stamps but I cannot lay my hands on the reference at this time.
One of the reason that these and a variety of other local stamps were reprinted was because of the stamp albums of the day. They all had empty spaces for these local stamps and entrepreneurial stamp dealers were happy to reprint these and sell them to collectors who were happy to have something to put in their albums.
Here is a closeup of the brown stamp showing various rust markings. It appears though that not all dies in the plate had rust. Some of the above stamps look fresh as a daisy.
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re: Classic Local US Stamps - American Letter Mail Reprints
I forgot to add that I have these both as loose stamps and hinged onto this sheet. One question I had to face was how to mount them in my US collection, perhaps others here have had to face that question.
As they were printed with the original dies I have decided to mount them with my other genuine local stamps but indicating that they are reprints.
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re: Classic Local US Stamps - American Letter Mail Reprints
Beautiful Antonio, I've always been fascinated with locals. Many of them are somewhat crude but I think that's part of their charm. You have to really know what you're doing to buy them though.
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re: Classic Local US Stamps - American Letter Mail Reprints
These were often included in the cheaper 'stamp packets' in the 1950s and 1960s. They made the color reprints for the 1942 APS convention.
Note the 'rust marks' on some of these reprints...
Your stamp is the second stamp in the second row.
There are many eBay listings which offer these souvenirs as real stamps and at what I think are ridiculous prices.
Don
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