The stamp features a portrait of Andrew Jackson, designed and engraved on metal by Charles Ludwig of Hoyer & Ludwig.
There is a wide range of green shades among the issued stamps, which helps distinguish the various printings of this first issue. There were 738, 000 stamps printed (estimate) from one lithographic stone.
A full printed sheet consisted of two panes of one hundred stamps in two blocks of fifty (10X5).
They were printed on thick, porous, wove paper, and were imperforate.
The earliest recorded date of use is March 21, 1862.
Color shades are green, bright yellow green, dark green, and the scarce bright emerald green.
Major print varieties are known.
Genuine Stamps
Scarce forgery in yellowish tint. No dots after CSA. Nose better formed than original and the absence of some small ornamentation at the top center.
The most common one found
Ornaments especially bottom ones do not match genuine
NOTE I have full sheets with no imprints
Very crude
It was used in 1930's to produce the Springfield facsimiles and in 1941 for the H.E. MacIntosh facsimiles, all lithos and somewhat deceptive.
