John P. Green (1899) - Looks For Flaws In Postage Stamps

We've had a lot of threads recently on flyspecking for minor varieties of older US postage stamps.

Keeping with that theme, I thought some might find this 1899 newspaper article on John P. Green an interesting read (as excerpted from the Boston Globe of March 8, 1899).

I can't imagine, even by 1899 standards, that one single person would be charged with examining every single stamp that was issued by the US Government in the course of that year!

The 100,000,000 postage stamps supplied for revenue use were R153, R154, and R155. I don't think the overprinted newspaper stamps were part of that number, although they might have been.