15c.
The re-issued stamp. -1875- (*) |
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| In 1875 the U.S.
Post Office brought into existence through the efforts of one of the
country´s best known founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, to plan its
participation in the Centennial celebration. The P.O. Depart. would re-print
and re-issue a complete set of all the postage stamps that had been issued
by the United States from its first issue in 1847 to the issue currently
in use. 10,000 copies of each stamp. Trouble started at the very beginning
with the contract for the printing of the first issue. The P.O. Depart.
discovered that it did not own the plates and dies used to print the
stamps, it had to start from scratch by engraving new dies and making new
plates. |
| A new transfer roll was made,
and form it a new frame plate was produced and from it, the re-issued
stamps were printed. The new frame plate printed a design described as
being the same as Type I except without the fringe of brown shading lines
around central vignette. So, Type III is born. |
(*)
Source: Cryier, J.C.M. Op.cit. |
