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Auction 62

Lot 457

Confederacy, 1862, 5¢ Jefferson Davis, a group of reprints produced by Philip Ward, with many sheets of 50, 70 and 100 and part sheets of the design used for Nos. 6 and 7 with a 10¢ (instead of 5¢) denomination in a variety of colors including bright blue, dark blue, red, yellow, gray, green and black, and a few on colored papers, we also note a few tête-bêche pairs in red, plus reprint panes of 100 in both the original blue color and black including an uncut sheet of 400 in black, also includes a few "souvenir sheets" of the design with a "Ten Cents" denomination and a 1974 souvenir card with the text only (x 14) and with the vignette only (x 18), also includes a reprinted sheet of the 2¢ Jackson (Scott 8) in blue-green and cut into 4 panes of 100 plus large multiples from the excess sheets of 400 with the menu and program printed on the reverse for the Confederate Stamp Alliance's (now Civil War Philatelic Society) 50th Anniversary dinner in 1985, also includes 15 sets of sheetlets of 25 of the "Springfield facsimilies", sheets and multiples in varying colors of crude fantasies and facsimiles of Confederate States Postmaster Provisionals, some of which are similar to the issued stamps and some aren't, and some of which are for express companies that never existed, probably printed in the 1930's-50's. A few edge faults as always, otherwise generally Very Fine. Shipping weight 6.4 lbs / 2.9 kilos.
Estimate $1,500 - 2,000

The plate was found in March 1954 by Maj. Thomas Coulson, Director of Museum Research of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, who contacted the famous stamp dealer Philip Ward of Philadelphia, who wrote about the discovery in the October 22, 1954 edition of Mekeel's Weekly Stamp News (copy of the paper accompanies). Ward contacted August Dietz who was convinced that this plate is the one that left London on March 1, 1862 aboard the ship "Bermuda", which was captured by the Federal blockading ship "Mercedes" (see page 162 of Dietz's book or page 333 of the CSA handbook). Ward used the plate to produce reprints. The plate was sold to the National Postal Museum in April 2011 .

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