30th June, 1868 1,500,000 2,000,000(?) 2,000,000(?) 6,000,000 " " 1869 ... 9,250,000 4,000,000 12,000,000 " " 1870 ... 2,300,000 1,300,000 11,300,000 " " 1871 ... ... 1,800,000 ... " " 1872 500,000 ... 3,200,000 ... " " 1873-82 4,756,700 ... ... ... " " 1876-96 ... ... ... ... --------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Totals 6,756,700 13,550,000 12,300,000 29,300,000 6c. 12-1/2c. 15c. 30th June, 1868 2,000,000 500,000(?) 212,500 " " 1869 2,000,000 1,000,000 600,000 " " 1870 2,230,000 300,000 ... " " 1871 3,070,000 734,000 ... " " 1872 2,325,000 ... ... " " 1873-82 ... ... ... " " 1876-96 ... ... 1,765,400 ---------- --------- --------- Totals 11,625,000 2,534,000 2,577,900 The above table shows that the first deliveries of the 1/2 cent were sufficient to last until 1872; from that time there were yearly deliveries approximating a half million up to the issue of the miniature 1/2 cent in 1882. The figures for that year doubtless included a large quantity of this latter stamp, so we can safely approximate the quantity of the 1/2 cent of 1868 issued as 6-1/2 millions. The large 1 cent stamp was superseded about March 1870, so the above figures may very likely be reduced by say two millions in 1870, leaving 11-1/2 millions of the large stamps, but in both brown-red and yellow. A large part of the 1868-9 deliveries must have been of the brown-red stamp, however, as the yellow one did not appear until January 1869, and from the catalog prices the former would seem to be twice as common as the latter. The large 3 cent was also superseded about January 1870, so that a considerable portion of the deliveries of 1869-70 were doubtless due its successor. Some 20 millions or more can without doubt be credited to the 1868 stamp, nevertheless. The 2 cent and 6 cent were both superseded early in 1872, so their totals can be reduced probably to approximately 10-11 millions for the former and perhaps 10 millions of the latter.