The Cedarville Herald, Volume 53, Numbers 1-26

N }- ^ 3 A I i ' • . 1 : fit * CKEUBTOt* HERALD, MARCH % 1980, ip y ■The"Worlds fir s j '. p o r t a g e .. fcnRA ^Pftfrp. By ELMO 8COTT WATSON , HE recent announcement from London that the world’s first postage stamp had been placed on sale in that city at­ tracted unusual atten­ tion : not only from stamp collectors but from the public in gen era], because it em phaslzed t^ie fact that this present-day common convenience, , millions o f which are used every­ day, is o f comparatively recent adop­ tion. Fpi- this stamp, an English one bearing the likeness of Queen Victoria 1$ still attached to the envelope on ' which It was used and bears the post mark “Bath, May 2,1840.” trbto means that the postage stamp-lit its present form is less than a hundred ■years old. The •first postage stamps in the United States were put on sale’ in New York on July 1, 1847. Previous to that time, postage stamps were is­ sued by private companies doing a . general express or local delivery serv­ ice o f letters. On, January 1, 1842, the’ City Dispatch Post, otherwise known as Grelg’s Post, was estah Halted In New York'city, and it Is said that this Post Issued the first ad­ hesive stamp used 'In this country. But the use o f these private stamps proved such- an annoyance to the gov­ ernment that ft was suppressed! and , In Its place the United States City Dispatch Post was established. In the early days o f the United Sta tes postal system the receiver of a letter paid for its delivery according to the number of sheets o f paper which the letter contained. In 1845 jkis system - was discarded and the weight system "was adopted with a lower rate. About the same time came the. envelope to give secrecy to letters. Prepayment of postage and the use o f gummed stamps were put into use In 1847. During the first fis­ cal year of their, use postmasters were supplied with 860,380 postage stamps to be sold to the public. Now, 83 years later, the Post Office department Is supplying some 14,000,000,000 stamps every year to the 50,000 post­ masters is the United States! Since the first gummed stamps were Issued In 1847, there have been a dozen distinct series o f regular post­ age stamps with additions to each after their Issue Only 16 o f our Pres­ idents have been honored by having their portraits appear on our stamps, while 19 other persons prominent In American history have been thus re­ membered. Washington and Franklin have been honored In every regular series of stamps from the beginning and Jef-. ferson and Lincoln bare seldom bean omitted. The other Presidents pic­ tured on various issues are: Madison, Monroe, JacksOn, Taylor, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Cleveland, Harrison, McKinley, Roosevelt, Harding and Wilson. Memorial stamps also have been Issued for Lincoln on ills one hundredth birthday anniversary in 1009, for Harding shortly after his death, and for John 'Ericsson, the In­ ventor, on the occasion o f the anveU- tog o f a statu* to him to Washington to 1026, The other men whose portraits have been selected fo r stamp issues are, bestdee Franklin, Henry (Say, Daniel Webster, Winfield - Scott, Alexander Hamilton, u. H. Perry, Edwin M. Stan­ ton, William T. Sherman, John Mar­ shall, David G. Farragut, Robert B. Livingston, William H. Seward, Na­ than Hale, Capt. John Smith, Christo pher Columbus and Vasco Balboa. Only three women have had that distinction. Martha Washington was the first, as, whs befitting the "First Lady of the Land,” -and the other two are Queen Isabella of Spain and Poca­ hontas, the Indian princess. Most interesting of all the stamps issued by the government, perhaps, are the special series, Issued from time to time, known as commemora tlve stamps. The first of these ap peared In 1883 to commemorate Col­ umbus’s discovery of America. There were sixteen of these stamps, ranging In denomination I'l'om one cent to $5, each one telling a little of the story: Columbus la Sight o f Land, the Land­ ing of Columbus, the Flagship of Columbus* the- Fleet of* Columbus, Columbus Soliciting the Aid of Isa­ bella, Columbus Welcomed „nt Barce­ lona, Columbus Bestored to Favor, Columbus Presenting Natives, Colum­ bus Announcing His Discovery, Colum­ bus at La Rabidn, Recall of Columbus, Isabella Pledging Her Jewels, Colum­ bus in Chains, Columbus Describing His Third Voyage, Isabella and’ Colum- bbs,' and Columbus alone. e After five years another commemo­ rative series followed, .known as Transmisslsslppl-Omaha stamps, Is­ sued" during the Transmlsslsslppi and Internationa! exposition. The nine denominations, ranging from one cent to 52, were titled Marquette on the Mississippi, Farming In the West, In­ dian Hunting 'Buffalo, Fremont on Bocky , Mountains, Troops Guarding Train, Hardships of Emigration, West­ ern Mining Prospector, Western Cat­ tle In Storm and Mississippi River Bridge, i The Pan-American exposition at Buffalo In 1901 was marked by an­ other series, depicting means o f trans­ portation, A lake steamer was shown on the one-cent stamp, a railway train on the two-cent, a steel-arch bridge on the five-cent, ship canal lock on the elght-cent and an ocean steamship on the ten-cent stamp. The next special series celebrated the purchase of Louisiana from France. The statnps bore severally the portraits of the men most respon­ sible for accomplishing It—-Robert R. Livingston, minister to France at the tlme$ Thomas Jefferson, President, and James Monroe, special ambassa­ dor to France, The Jamestown series of 1907 fol­ lowed, depicting the landing of the colonists 300 years before and bearing the likenesses of Capt. John Smith and Pocahontas. The first single commemorative stamp—that Is to say one that belonged to no series—was that of 1909 to mark the. development o f the Alaska-Ynkon-Paclfic territory, having for Us design the portrait o f William EL Seward, who as secretary o f state negotiated tire purchase of Alaska from Russia. In the snrhe year a two-cent stamp, Showing nenry Hudson’s Half Moon sailing past the Palisades and Robert Fulton’s Clermont under full steam, commemorated not only the discovery o f the Hudson river but also the centennial of its first navigation by steam. The 1912-18 series marked the opening of the Panama canal and the discovery of the Pacific ocean, to 1919 a special three-cent stamp was Issued to commemorate the successful outcome of the World war. It de­ pleted a figure o f Liberty victorious against a background o f the flags of the United States, England, France, Italy and Belgium. In 1920 the Pilgrim Tercentenary was celebrated with three stamps 11 lustrated by the Mayflower, the land­ ing of the Pilgrims and the signing of the Mayflower Compact, aboard that historic ship. The coming o f the Huguenot-Walloons to America was celebrated in a tercentenary series In 1924 and the arrival of the first im­ migrants to the United States from Norway in 1695 was also the Inspire tion for another series, known' as the Norse-Amerlcan series. During the past five years the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of many of the stirring deeds of the Rev­ olutionary war has given the lm petus to .a large number of patriotic issues. The 'first of these came out in 1025 with the Issue of the three Lexington-Goncord stamps. Then came the Sesquicentennlal stamps with the Bell of Liberty In 1926, closely fol­ lowed by the White Plains Battle stamp to the same-year, the Green. Mountain Boys o f Vermont and the Burgoyne Surrender in 1927, Wash ington at Valley Forge, and Molly Pitcher In 1928 and the George Rog­ ers Clark and the General Sullivan stamps in 1929. During 1930 other events of the Revolution probably will be commern orated and a movement, has already been started for a special series to celebrate the tercentenary of the Massachusetts Bay colony founding. Two special stamps, honoring great Americans, have appeared In the last three years, to 1927 Lindbergh’s epic flight across the Atlantic was hon­ ored In a special air-mail stamp and during the past year Thomas Edison was honored with a stamp comment orating the fiftieth anniversary of the Invention o f the incandescent lamp. In connection with the latter two, many persons wondered Why portraits- of Lindbergh and Edison,did not appear on the stamps which bore the mes­ sage of their fame,* The renson was that the law of the land prohibits the use of the portrait of a living Amer­ ican on the postage stamps of our country. (And for a similar reason - this article Is not Illustrated with re­ productions of any American stamp. It 1^ "agin the law” to Illustrate United States stamps, the same as United States currency or coins I) "So the Lindbergh -stamp showed his fa­ mous plane, the Spirit o f St. Louis, and the Edison Light Golden Jubilee stamp showed a picture of the first Incandescent light. Another Interesting fact about the Lindbergh stamp Is that 15,000,000 of this issue were printed. Virtually all of them have been bought up, giv­ ing Uncle Sam a net profit of 51,000,• 000, post office officials estimate. Since only a few of the stamps have been used, the officials estimate that at least 10,000,000 of them will be re­ tained as souvenirs. The fact that these stamps contain an error will make them more valuable In later years, it Is predicted. The error Is that Newfoundland Is shown as sev­ eral islands Instead of a large piece o f land frit- --it with Indentations. About 10 1)00,000 postage Btarnps are printed for our Post Office de­ partment each year by the bureau of engraving and printing at Washing­ ton. Dies are made and stamps ate printed in sheets of 400 each. After being printed and dried the sheets are taken to the gumming machines Each machine Is surmounted by a tank from which a carefully regulated stream of special gum Is fed Into a pan,, at one end of which it cotnes Into contact with an adjustable re­ volving roller. After being gummed the sheets pass Into a tunnel where the temperature Is kept at 180 de­ grees. 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