Trivia #27 Stamp (1/27/2014)

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The first stamp of the Confederacy, a five cent denomination, green in color and made in London, displayed a picture of who or what?
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[Mike Serpa]

Jefferson Davis

 

[chellers]

Jefferson Davis

 

[hoosier]

Jeff Davis

 

[Stony]

Jefferson Davis

 

[ErnieMac]

Jefferson Davis.

 

[Dbersh]

CSA President Jefferson Davis

 

[Custers Luck]

Jefferson Davis

 

[adisciu9]

Jefferson Davis

 

[Bob Owen]

Jefferson Davis

 

[Copperhead-mi]

Jefferson Davis

 

[truthckr]

Jefferson Davis

 

[AUG]

President Jefferson Davis

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

Jefferson Davis

 

[Eagle eye]

Jefferson Davis

 

[101combatvet]

Jefferson Davis

 

[Keith Cochran]

Jefferson Davis

 

[reading48]

1861 green..Hoyer & Ludwig engraving....Virginia.....Jefferson Davis picture
1862 Blue...De La Rue engraving..............London England...Jefferson Davis Picture.

Jefferson Davis picture on both engravers but colors differ according to my source.

 

[C.S.M 1861]

The first postage stamp issued by the Confederate postal service was a 5¢ green depicting Jefferson Davis. But it was not printed in London, it was actually lithograph printed by the firm Hoyer and Ludwig in Richmond, Va. A later 1862 edition of the 5¢ green Davis Confederate stamp was reprinted in large quantities with the typography process in London by the firm De La Rue.

The first postage stamp issued by the Confederate States (1861) was a 5¢ green depicting Jefferson Davis. It was printed by the lithograph process by Hoyer and Ludwig of Richmond,Virginia. Like almost all Confederate issues, these stamps were imperforate, and single stamps had to be cut from the sheet with razors or scissors. This stamp was reprinted in blue in 1862.

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Also in 1862, a new 5¢ stamp of Davis, this time utilizing typography, was issued in large quantities. Produced by the De La Rue firm in London, it employed an engraving of Davis by Jean Ferdinand Joubert De La Ferte (1810–1884). De La Rue shipped 12,000,000 copies of this issue to the Confederacy, accompanied by a set of printing plates and a supply of English paper so that additional copies could be produced locally. More than 36,000,000 of the 5¢ Davis stamps were subsequently printed from the De La Rue plates by Archer and Daly in Richmond. Archer and Daly eventually ran out of the English paper, and their later printings on Confederate paper tended to become increasingly coarse, with individual examples exhibiting blank areas in the design from plate damage or filled in areas due to plate wear. (Today they can be purchased for approximately US$10 depending on condition.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_the_Confederate_States

 

[FarawayFriend]

Confederate President Jefferson Davis