US Reference In Perkins Bacon Engraving Book

I am intriged by these entries in the Perkins, Bacon & Co. Ltd. (London, England) engraving book for September 1894.

17th Sept: Altered 7 heads of relief stamps Env.
of U.S. 1853 Issue (£3 13s 6d)

26th Sept: Engraved 2 plates comprising 9
Watermark Varieties of Envelope
U.S. 1853 Issues (£7 7s 0d)

I wasn't aware that Perkins Bacon supplied plates, stamps or envelopes of any type to the USA? Does anyone have any other information on this?

Michael

1853 would be the original Nesbitt issue - Scott U1.

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The streets near the Berserkley campus of the University of California are named for Great American Men of Letters (east-west) and Great American Men of Science (north-south) ...

... none of whom you have ever heard of because, back in the middle 1800s, there were no truly Great American Men of Letters or Science ...

... just a few saplings standing a little taller than the other saplings, some of whom were soon to be struck down.

(Shattuck was a chemist who later blew himself up in his lab, while Bancroft was an historian who made a fool of himself by mis-reading the Navigation Acts, to cite two examples that stuck in my mind.)

So perhaps it is not too surprising that an engraving job would be sourced from The Old Country, especially if some other recent locally-sourced job had not gone well.

Champions of Free Trade, take note: At the behest of American paper companies, Andrew Jackson required that all Federal agencies buy their paper sized 8-1/2" by 11" precisely to give an unfair trade advantage to American paper producers over European paper producers ... the latter were tooled for A4, and were likely to withdraw from the then-small American market rather than add yet another size to their lines.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey (who so enjoyed Economics 113, The Economic History of the United States, that he volunteered to write his roommate's term paper, which earned an "A")