$20 Newspaper Periodical Stamp

Thought someone might enjoy seeing this one.



I believe it's a PR123.

PR123 with Watermark
or
PR111 without Watermark

Hmmm...I never took it out of the mount to look...but now that you mentioned it I scanned the back (which is not in the best shape).



Is that stamped "reprint" (?) I must originally have taken that to mean R123 versus R111. No watermark is apparent (to the naked eye) anyway.

I see there's a note at the bottom of the Scott listings suggesting there was a 1899 reprint of the higher values to meet demand when they were sold in sets, which are virtually indistinguishable from earlier printings. Could this explain the "reprint" mark?

Short answer, Yes.

Who looks at the back?
I think it's a beautiful design / stamp.
I'd certainly like to have one.

Yes Rod, the Front... the lady is not bad

do we know who engraved them?
As an antipodean, I am expecting to see
"American Banknote..."

Originally produced by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.


Here is an imprint block that I don't own:

What I have never understood is how they got away with showing a female with a bare bosom. This isn't the only example of this. The 1902 definitives also show the female form in a state of undress. I suppose that it being an allegorical figure might explain it some.

But then in 1917, the Standing Liberty Quarter also showed a depiction of "Liberty" with exposed breasts and it had to be modified by putting what looks like chain mail on the top!

The $20 stamp would not be seen by the average American, so it might not "count" as much in the discussion. The 2-cent Pan American (Scott 295...the train stamp) is probably the most-overt example I can think of. I've never read whether there was any outcry. Certainly, by the time of the Type I Standing Liberty Quarter, there was plenty of outcry, so I would say no one "got away with" the quarter...

I wonder if anyone gave the quarter incident any thought when preparing the Ericsson Memorial issue (Scott 628) around ten years later?

Examining the back of the Newspaper stamps or the Ericsson stamp is like saying you only read the articles in magazines.

Hahahahaha

I'm sorry, I don't see what the big deal is (was) with the the
bare breasted stamps/coins... I don't imagine there were any
cases of adolescent boys locking themselves in the bathroom for
20 minutes with a stamp... Or any dad's wondering why their
pocket change is stuck together. A bunch of worry over nothing.

A different time.