History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of AmericaTiffany, John K. (John Kerr)
History
History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of America
Tiffany, John K. (John Kerr)
Postage stamps -- United States
(_b_) There are twelve lines above "_Saint_," and seventeen above
"_Louis_."
(_c_) There are one long and three short lines under "_Saint_," and one
long and two short lines and a dot under "_Louis_," the latter on a line
between the ear and eye of the bear.
(_d_) A diamond in the top of the 5, and an upright diamond in the back,
with eleven dots below and four dots above it.
(_e_) The bear is on a ground lined horizontally above and vertically
below.
Mr. Pemberton thinks, from a fine clear copy he had seen, that for some
reason the numeral of this variety had been originally engraved as a 1.
He says there is a thin line to the right of the down stroke of the 5,
three small dots in a curve to the right of the diamond in the top of
the 5, and two small dots, one over the other to the left of the
diamond.
_Fourth Variety._[A] Mr. Pemberton describes a fourth type of the Five
cents which he claims is a restoration of the second variety, from which
one variety of the 20 cents was made by alteration.
(_a_) The buckle has the point turned down to the right.
(_b_) There are eleven dashes above "_Saint_," and ten above "_Louis_."
(_c_) There are four lines under "_Saint_," and three long and two short
lines under "_Louis_," the last on a level with the bear's ear.
(_d_) A diamond in the top, and a long diamond in the back of 5, with
four dots over and four dots under the latter. Coarser shading around
the figure, and a curved vertical line at the back of the bow, being
part of the 0 of 20 badly erased.
(_e_) Bear on a vertically lined ground. The two lines of the frame
above Louis bulged.
[A] NOTE.--Without examining the specimen from which Mr.
Pemberton described, it is impossible to say that it may not be
one of the retouches which Mr. Kershaw thinks he made.
TEN CENTS. The words "_Saint_," and "_Louis_" are in small, colored,
ordinary capitals, unshaded. There is a long flourish curved upwards
over each word. It seems to have been intended to have a point with a
short dash on each side of it, above each of these, with a second long
flourish curved upwards and then brought down round the end of the word,
and continued as a flourish under them, but the details are different in
the several types. The numerals are ornamented by a diamond in the
middle of each down stroke, with three dots, above and below each
diamond, except in type one, which has only two dots below the diamond
in the 1.
The following varieties will be noticed:
_First Variety._ The point and right dash, between the corner flourishes
on both sides, usually missing, and the upper flourish does not come
distinctly round the right hand word.
3 lines beneath "Post Office."
5 " " "Saint."
4 " " "Louis."
_Second Variety._ The point and right dash, between the flourishes in
the right hand corner, gone, and the upper flourish, does not come round
the right hand word distinctly.
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