The General Issues Of United States Stamps PDF Download

Excerpt from The General Issues of United States Stamps, Their Shades and Varieties: To Which Is Affixed a History of the Private Perforating Machines and Their Products Cancellation dies were uncommon in 1847 and pen struck co'pies are plentiful, but the cleaned stamps usually show a faint yellow-(brown mark where cleaned, and if one trains the eye to look for it one can Often see the two parallel scratches in the paper made by the two sides of the pen-point. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.