ISSUE 183 - March 6, 2026 - Stamp News Online Magazine
Yesterday in Mekeel’s, National Issue:
The U.S. Postage Stamp, 1870-1900, Parts 7 and 8
by Lowell S. Newman & Peter T. Rohrbach
Chapter II
Stamps of The Depression: 1873-1877, Cont.
The paper used for the stamps produced by the Continental Bank Note Company for the Issue of 1873 was generally a hard paper that varied considerably in thickness. But there were also varieties of paper used occasionally, such as a thick, hard paper with vertical or horizontal ribbing. Some stamps were printed experimentally on papers that had been chemically treated, but these quite brittle stamps were only a test and they were . . .
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