Have Another Beer Stamp!

REA16 population 270 with good violet color security lines.

REA22 population 209 very well centered.

REA32 population 837 enhanced with beer stains.

Wonderful not having to obsess about condition and still collecting a great stamp.

JD a belated appreciation for showing the Hamm cinderella. I have read about them in Priester but had never seen one.

So there's actually a census for these? Where do you find that?

United States Beer Stamps-updated population report abridged edition.
Thomas W. Priester
copyright 1990

copyright 1979-complete edition-tons of info.

The Priester books have their own numbering system and are a must for collecting Beer stamps in detail.
Priester offered Scott the numbering system gratis but they refused. So now Scott and Priester numbers are used in serious Beer stamp collecting.

Also, don't forget auction catalogs:

https://siegelauctions.com/2012/1018/1018.pdf

Excellent reference

It's actually much better to go to the Siegel site and click on "view lots", rather then "view catalog as PDF". The images and descriptions are much larger and can be enlarged further. That way it is possible to see important things that were missed, such as lot 101 (as far as I know only 2 people noticed this).

Robert Siegel auctions. The two biggies Scarsdale & Tolman.


https://siegelauctions.com/lots.php...y+29%2C+2012

https://siegelauctions.com/sales.php?sale_no=919

Apparently no one was interested in looking at lot 101 of the Scarsdale sale, so no one noticed the major omission from the description which later became the basis for a new catalog listing.

Double impression of surcharge.

Correct. Which means that the person who sold it to Scarsdale did not see it, Scarsdale did not see it, Siegel did not see it when they lotted it, and practically no one saw it at the viewing or it would have gone much higher.

Okay, expert collectors, let's see if you can identify this item! Hints: It is intaglio, it's from a book and the page was produced by the BEP. The revenue images are printed full-size.

American Bond Detector by Nehemiah G. Ordway (Laben Heath). "pie cut" engravings to help detect counterfeits.

The first time I saw one of these was over 40 years ago. Beautiful items.

Entire book is here:

https://archive.org/stream/american...131/mode/2up

Thanks to the internet archive website

You guys are tough to stump! It is indeed a page from the American Bond Detector, published in 1869. The pie-slice areas were a way of minimally defacing the plate so the Treasury could release reprints of government securities to the public. I'm not certain why Laban Heath chose to include a page of taxpaid revenues amongst the bonds, since bankers and securities brokers would have little use for it. But it's a striking example of early BEP engraving.

Thanks for posting that link to the full book. The Library of Congress also has a digitized copy from their collection that can be viewed online at http://lcweb4.loc.gov/service/gdc/s...822002am.pdf. This variety shows the $500 bond with a red-orange border on plate 18.