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| Scott Number | 09X1 |
|---|---|
| Date | October 12, 18xx |
| From City | New York |
| From State | NY |
| To City | Philadelphia |
| To State | PA |
| Addressee | Frederic A. Packard |
| Cert Author | |
| Cert # | |
| Fake | |
| No. of Stamps | 1 |
| Plate Position | 39 |
| Initials | ACM |
| Others |
Notes
Dated Oct 12, 18xx, Position 39
Plate Reconstruction of On-Cover Stamps
Lot 42 New York N.Y., 5c Black, Complete Plate Reconstruction on Covers (9X1, 9X1a, 9X1b, 9X1e). All 40 positions on covers, mostly folded letters mounted two to an album page with notations in the hand of A. Nicholas Reggio, philatelic secretary to Henry G. Lapham, including 22 covers with No. 9X1, six with No. 9X1a including one with two stamps (one the Big Shift Position 2 double transfer) used to pay the over- 300 miles rate to Jackson, Tennessee, eight with No. 9X1b including two with A C M initials separated but without periods, four with No. 9X1e, mostly full to large margins with some touched on a side, all used from New York and with the range of red handstamps seen during the 1845-47 period, most with blue pen cancels, a few stamp or cover flaws to be found but overall fresh, if this were not a reconstruction most of these would be individual lots
VERY FINE. AN OUTSTANDING AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE COMPLETE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW YORK POSTMASTER'S PROVISIONAL ON 40 SEPARATE COVERS.
All of the issued New York provisional stamps come from the single engraved plate of 40, made up of eight horizontal rows of five. Over the two-year period that the stamps were valid, 143,600 were delivered, including the stamps on Blue and Gray papers from the last printing in 1847. Complete reconstructions of the plate with used stamps are rare, but forming one made up of on-cover stamps is unimaginably difficult. The amount of material available to Reggio and Lapham to create all the plate reconstructions that went into the Frelinghuysen collection must have been enormous.
Ex Lapham. Scott Retail with no premium for the double transfers. (Photo Ex) 31,575.00
Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries Inc. sale 1020 realized 12,000
Plate Reconstruction of On-Cover Stamps
Lot 42 New York N.Y., 5c Black, Complete Plate Reconstruction on Covers (9X1, 9X1a, 9X1b, 9X1e). All 40 positions on covers, mostly folded letters mounted two to an album page with notations in the hand of A. Nicholas Reggio, philatelic secretary to Henry G. Lapham, including 22 covers with No. 9X1, six with No. 9X1a including one with two stamps (one the Big Shift Position 2 double transfer) used to pay the over- 300 miles rate to Jackson, Tennessee, eight with No. 9X1b including two with A C M initials separated but without periods, four with No. 9X1e, mostly full to large margins with some touched on a side, all used from New York and with the range of red handstamps seen during the 1845-47 period, most with blue pen cancels, a few stamp or cover flaws to be found but overall fresh, if this were not a reconstruction most of these would be individual lots
VERY FINE. AN OUTSTANDING AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE COMPLETE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW YORK POSTMASTER'S PROVISIONAL ON 40 SEPARATE COVERS.
All of the issued New York provisional stamps come from the single engraved plate of 40, made up of eight horizontal rows of five. Over the two-year period that the stamps were valid, 143,600 were delivered, including the stamps on Blue and Gray papers from the last printing in 1847. Complete reconstructions of the plate with used stamps are rare, but forming one made up of on-cover stamps is unimaginably difficult. The amount of material available to Reggio and Lapham to create all the plate reconstructions that went into the Frelinghuysen collection must have been enormous.
Ex Lapham. Scott Retail with no premium for the double transfers. (Photo Ex) 31,575.00
Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries Inc. sale 1020 realized 12,000
