1901 GREEN AND BLACK U. EXPERT CERTIFIED AS AUTHENTIC WITH CONDITION REPORT. BEST PRICE ANYWHERE ON THIS STAMP. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article. By adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Learn how and when to remove this template message. Inverted one cent denomination. 1¢, 2¢ and 4¢. As part of the Pan-American Exposition. Held in Buffalo in 1901 the United States Post Office Department. Issued a series of six commemorative stamps. Each stamp featured an ornate colored frame enclosing a black-and-white image of some means of (or adjunct to) modern rapid transportation. In the standard American Scott catalog. These six stamps carry the numbers 294-299. The first day of issue for the stamps was May 1, 1901. The two color printing left the possibility of errors. Three of the denominations. 1 cent, 2 cents and 4 cents, were printed in sheets on which the center vignette was inverted relative to the frame. The inverts carry the Scott catalog numbers 294a, 295a, and 296a respectively. While the 1 cent and 2 cent inverts reached post offices by accident, the 4 cent invert was printed deliberately as the result of a misunderstandingand, in fact, never went on sale. After the discovery of the 1¢ and 2¢ inverts in mid-1901, the Third Assistant Postmaster, Edwin C. Madden, decided to track down any additional errors, and in late summer had his assistant instruct the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to send any inverted Pan-American stamps in their inventory to Madden’s office. No inverted stamps in fact remained on hand, and proper procedure would have been for the Bureau to inform Madden that none were still in stock. However, interpreting Maddens communique as an unconditional demand for inverts, the Bureau produced four sheets of them from the 4 cent plates and sent 400 copies on to Madden. The word “specimen” was then handstamped in purple ink on about half of the stamps. Between 1901 and 1904 Madden distributed 172 four cent inverts as gifts to friends, associates and his sons (also keeping one for himself), both with and without the overstamp. Of the copies that remained, a pane of 100 went into the Government Collection of American Stamps in the Washington National Museum. Issues missing from the museums collection. No record exists of what happened to the rest of the 400 original copies. “Specimen” copies of the 4 cent invert command a considerably lower price than unmarked examples. That contained reproductions of the three original inverts, along with four 80-cent stamps based on a souvenir Cinderella stamp. Available at the original Pan-American Exposition. Fourteen million copies were printed, making this a common issue. Although the details and colors are exact copies of the originals, the date “2001” appears on the lower left corner of each stamp. The item “U. S. #294a RARE Used withCert 1c Pan-American INVERT” is in sale since Tuesday, November 03, 2015. This item is in the category “Stamps\United States\1901-Now\ Used”. The seller is “johnjay5″ and is located in Garden City, New York. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Topic: Titanic
- Color: Green
- Year of Issue: 1901-1910
- Denomination: 1 Cent
- Quality: Unused, No Gum
- Country/Region of Manufacture: United States