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In our February issue we presented the Aristocrats of section of the 1996 Collectors Club Anniversary Philatelic Exhibition—Anphilex. This month we pick up with the balance of the catalog. United States 1847-1851 This exhibit studies usages of the 1847 and 1851 issues to and from the United States, with a wide variety of foreign destinations, postal rates and combinations of stamps. An impressive group of 5-cent and 10-cent 1847 covers used from Canada and the famous 90-cent triple-rate from Panama to the United States are included. The highlights are the only two recorded covers bearing the Ca- nadian 3-pence stamp and the 1847 U.S. 5- cent stamp used from Canada when postal regulations of both countries authorized this combination. One cover (shown) bears a 5-cent strip of five and a single 3-pence stamp paying the postage from Canada to London through the United States. The other bears a single copy of each stamp paying the 6-pence or 10-cent rate from Canada to New York. United States Waterbury Cancellations This exhibit pro- vides the unique op- portunity to view the greatest collection of the fancy cancella- tions of Postmaster John W. Hill of Wa- terbury, Connecti- cut, ever assembled,

Issue 4 - April 5, 2011 - StampNewsOnline.net  showing both completeness and quality. It features the world-famous cover (page 9) bearing three strikes of the “Running Chicken” cancel on the U.S. 1-cent stamp of 1869, the most highly sought-after fancy cancellation us- age in United States postal history.… United States Columbian Issue The selected pages exhibited here come from the greatest col- lection ever formed of the United States’ most popular and legendary set of com- memorative stamps. Major items include a set of the largest multiples of the $2, $3, $4 and $5 values, including the famous block of 14 of the last; a complete set of Columbian Exposition cov- ers; a New York registered cover bearing the full set of 16 stamps (shown); and a first day cover franked with the 1-cent through 10-cent values.… United States Trans-Mississippi Issue Anticipating the 100th anniversary of this legendary set of nine commemorative stamps, this exhibit shows a selection from perhaps the most formidable collection of the Trans-Mississippi is- sue ever formed. Among the important pieces are a com- plete set of plate blocks plus the rare top plate block of the 8-cent value imperforate horizontally (shown).… United States and Confederate States This exhibit includes U.S. Postmaster Provisionals, Confederate States of America (C.S.A.) Postmaster Pro-

Issue 4 - April 5, 2011 - StampNewsOnline.net 10 visionals and C.S.A. general issues. Among the U.S. Postmaster Provisionals are the 2-cent Annapolis on cover, Baltimore, 5- cent Millbury on cover (shown), New York, Providence and St. Louis, which have not been shown in a long time, if ever. The C.S.A. pages show “The Big Beaumont,” Pleasant Shade and Marion, Virginia; 2-cent Provisionals from Memphis, Mobile, Baton Rouge and New Orleans (both blue and red); the 10-cent Uniontown and the 5-cent Liv- ingston, Alabama.… United States—Hawaii

The three denominations of Missionary postage stamps exhibited here were placed on sale October 1, 1851, by Postmaster Henry M. Whitney to prepay specific postage rates established by the Hawaiian Legislature on June 18, 1851. 2 cents [Sc. 1]: prepaid postage on newspapers, prices current and printed circulars. 5 cents [Sc. 2]: prepaid postage on letters from shore to ship. 13 cents [Sc. 3 has “Hawaiian Postage” at the top and Sc. 4 more accurately states “H.I. & U.S. Postage”]: prepaid postage on letters to the United States which consisted of 5 cents Hawaiian shore-to-ship postage, 2 cents ship captain’s gratuity, and 6 cents U.S. internal postage for distances more than 3000 miles.

Issue 4 - April 5, 2011 - StampNewsOnline.net 11 Printed at the offices ofThe Polynesian, the government newspaper, the printing form was made up of objects from a job printer’s case, including ornaments, characters and printer’s rules. These loose pieces were locked together in a series of cliches, forming the printing plate. Plate size is unknown.… Canada Before the formation of the Canadian Confederation in 1867, the individual provinces issued their own postage stamps. The province of Canada is especially renowned for its 3-pence Beaver stamps and the rare 12-pence black stamp. This exhibit covers a wide range of Canadian philately from the classic imperforate stamps through most of the 19th century. Emphasis is on major multiples and unusual items. Included are pairs of the 12-pence black stamp, the unique unused block of four of the 7-1/2-pence green stamp (shown), and the unique unused block of four of the 10-pence blue stamp. Costa Rica Costa Rica’s first postage stamps, is- sued in 1863, include four values: “medio real,” “dos reales,” “cuatro reales” and “un peso.” These ba- sic stamps remained in use for almost 20 years..…One month after Costa Rica joined the U.P.U. on January 1, 1883, all first issue stamps and surcharges were demonetized. Included in this exhibit are the 1873 combination cover from San Jose to Rome (shown) sent registered through the British Post Office in London, and probably one of Costa Rica’s most spectacular items.…

Issue 4 - April 5, 2011 - StampNewsOnline.net 12 Denmark This exhibit opens with selected items from 1806 to 1849, a romantic period of Danish postal history Emphasis is on the Copen- hagen Foot-Post during its years as a private enter- prise. All its regular postal marks are shown together with some unique usages never previously shown in public. A more conventional view of the first adhesive stamps from 1851 to 1863 is devoted primarily to the first two of the 10 so-called “square” stamps, the 2 Rigsbankskilling and the 4 Rigsbankskillmg. Their story is told through essays, proofs and stamp varieties, multiples and usages, including the “2” value in an unused block of four… France

The first seven issues of France were in use during the reign of Napoleon III, starting with his election to the presidency of the Second Republic in 1849 and ending with the fall of his Second Empire and its replacement by the Third Republic in 1870. This exhibit, the greatest ever formed of France, displays the stamps issued during that 1849-70 period. Unused multiples and interesting postal usages are shown for each stamp of the period. Particular emphasis is placed on the tete-beche errors of these issues and, ac-

Issue 4 - April 5, 2011 - StampNewsOnline.net 13 cordingly, some of the most prominent French philatelic items are included in the display.…Two of the many high- lights of this exhibit are the unused block of 30 (page 5) of the 1849 black 20-centime stamp on ivory paper with a tete-beche (arrow).… Greece The “Athina” [sic] Collection is a comprehensive study of the first Greek stamps, the Large Hermes Heads first issued in 1861 and used until 1886. Highlights among the stamps include the matrix and all pri- mary die proofs.… Among the covers the highlights include a first-day-of-issue cover postmarked Oc- tober 1, 1861, the only recorded ear- lier franked cover postmarked September 30 (shown), and many covers with very notable combination frank- ings.…. Iceland This exhibit of the “Numeral” issues be- gins with forerunners, including the famous cover with Danish stamps used from Iceland (shown)…. It matches mint stamps, including many key multiples, with usages on covers, including the only showing in existence of all the Skilling values on cover.… Other highlights include the only trans-Atlantic Skill- ing cover, the only complete unused set of the Prir sur- charges on the two differently perforated stamps, and the “Ferrarities” of the I Gildi stamps. On the basis of rarity, these Iceland “classics” hold their own with the “classics” of Europe or the Americas, especially on cover.

Issue 4 - April 5, 2011 - StampNewsOnline.net 14 Italian States Exhibited here are some of the greatest rarities of the Italian States, featuring the famous block of eight of the Savoy Cross stamp of Naples, a unique piece from the Caspary collec- tion…. Another “Aristocrat of Italian States Philately” is the Sicily 1/2-grano stamp in blue rather than orange on piece (shown). [Notice the cancellation, designed in the form of a three-sided wreath so that it would not obliterate the portrait of the vain Ferdinand II.] Only one other example of the color error, originally on this same piece, has been recorded.…Another rarity is the example of the unissued 20-bajocchi Roman States stamp unique outside of the complete sheet in the Vatican Museum. Japan The first postage stamps used in Japan are at this late date still a mystery. It appears that an obscure coach service company, Sutherland & Co., issued private stamps to prepay its postal charges on items it carried between Yokohama and Tokyo. Five copies of the 1/4- boo stamp on yellow paper are recorded, four copies of the 1-boo stamp on pink paper with the denomination changed from 1-boo to 1/4 boo by manuscript (shown) and a unique example of the 1-boo stamp on pink paper which is displayed…. The first stamps issued by the Japanese post office in 1871, called the dragon stamps, are imperforate…. Nicaragua Opening this exhibit is a section of pre-stamp mark- ings, including rare and unique types. The first issue of 1862 is prominently represented with a range of proofs, the largest known unused multiples of the two values, and two of the three known usages on cover.…

Issue 4 - April 5, 2011 - StampNewsOnline.net 15 The British Post Office is also well represented with an excellent range of stamps up to the elu- sive 10-shilling value and covers with no less than four com- bination frankings. An 1881 cover to England (shown) bears a 5c. perforated stamp, a 25c. rouletted stamp and a British 1-sh. stamp cancelled in Greytown. Romania This exhibit fo- cuses on the classic imperforate issues of Moldavia and Wala- chia, the provinces of Romania that is- sued postage stamps before the national post office did. These stamps, starting with the famous circular Bulls of 1858, have always been considered among the rarest of Europe. The Romanian Bulls are shown in the finest possible quality. Emphasis is on multiples, covers, and multiple frankings on cover wherever they exist. Highlights are the cover bearing the 54-parale and the 108-parale stamps used from Jassy (ex. Burrus) and the cover franked with a horizontal pair and single of the 108- parale value (ex. Farouk, shown). Russia This chronological exhibit opens with two of three known copies of the 1857 Tiflis City Post stamp (one shown).…

Issue 4 - April 5, 2011 - StampNewsOnline.net 16 Sweden This exhibit in- cludes the key postal items from the first issue of Sweden, the skilling banco stamps in five values, which were issued on July 1, 1855.… Very few of the stamps bear the first day cancellation since that day was a Sunday and not many letters were mailed. Included here are examples on a 4-sk.bco. cover (shown) and a 6-sk.bco. stamp. Switzerland The early issues of Switzerland have always been consid- ered a most impor- tant classic area with great popular appeal. The cantonal and fed- eral administration stamps off and on cover in this exhibit have been selected for their high quality. The Double Geneva on cover (shown) is an unusual tied copy because normally a single is completely on the stamp. Venezuela Never have so many rarities of the early issues of Venezuela been assembled in one collection. Among the highlights on display here are covers with the first known usages of the 1- and 2- reales stamps from the first im- pression of the first issue, the 1-real example also being the first known use of a stamp of Venezuela. Representing the later issues are many first usages as well as most of the largest known multiples and the rar- est cancellations.…A most important cover from Venezu- ela bears a vertical strip of five of the first setting of the

Issue 4 - April 5, 2011 - StampNewsOnline.net 17 same stamp. This cov- er (shown) not only shows the earliest known use of the 2-reales coarse im- pression, testifying to which of the three settings came first, but it also proves that it was possible to pay postage abroad only by Venezuelan stamps. Western Australia This exhibit contains representa- tion from all the first issues, from the original Perkins, Bacon printings in 1852, through the local lithographed and recess-printed stamps, through the first printings made by De La Rue from the Perkins, Bacon plates, to the first typographed stamp produced by De La Rue in 1872. The good range of usages on covers includes the only known three-color franking from the first issue. Other rare items include two copies of the famous 4 pence “inverted frame” (one shown), unused copies of the 1857-59 litho- graphed stamps, mint and used examples of the 2d. “error of color” and a copy of the 4d. “double print.” United States Revenues The revenue stamps of the United States provide a field of unlimited scope and potential. This exhibit has been pre-eminent in its area for more than thirty years. It begins with the embossed revenues used by the Mas- sachusetts Bay Colony (1755-1757), the New York Colony (1757-1760), the British revenues for use in America (1765-1766), the first stamp issued by the United States, the $5.00 license to sell liquor (1794-1802), and the early federal issues (1798-1802). The first adhesive revenue stamps of 1862-1871 re- sulted from a stamp tax act to provide funds for the Civil

Issue 4 - April 5, 2011 - StampNewsOnline.net 18 War. Many of the largest recorded multiples of the 102 different stamps issued during this period are shown here. The inverted centers are com- plete except for the 5-cent propri- etary stamp of 1871 on violet paper (shown, the 25¢ with inverted center, Sc. REA32a). Trinidad Trinidad is known for its classic “seated Britannia” design which is so prominent in the early issues of many British colonies. This collection, formed by the distin- guished philatelist who was keeper of Her Majesty’s collec- tion for more than 20 years, is highly specialized accord- ing to printings with proofs, essays, perforation varieties, multiples and covers. The Lady McLeod stamp, shown here unused with full original gum and on letter, is the first in the British Commonwealth outside of Great Britain. It was issued in April 1847 by David Bryce to prepay postage on letters carried by his sail-equipped steamer be- tween the Trinidad ports of Port of Spain and San Fernando.

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