According to the Annual Report of the Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1919, Government Printing Office, 1919, page 46, 10,000 copies of all four sizes of the violet narcotic strip stamps were overprinted "Porto Rico."
Does anyone happen to have an example of these stamps?
I do not think that the current ebay sellers are producing the rubber handstamped narcotic forgeries. I think that many of those were produced in the 1920's. There was another wave of those productions circa 1950. And, yes, the late Dick Walla was busy producing them in the 1980's. There are plenty of all of these out there that producing another batch is totally unnecessary.
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Posted 12/09/2017 4:31 pm
