Tuesday, August 22, 2023

US CSA #3

 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


Forgeries
Birmingham Forgery
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.

Springfield Forgery
The most common one found
Ornaments especially bottom ones do not match genuine
Back of Springfield
NOTE I have full sheets with no imprints

S.A. Taylor forgeries
Very crude

Torres forgery - closely matches Taylor forgery
Image from Torres1879 catalog

Dietz 1919 facsimile
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. 

1941 H.E. MacIntosh facsimile