What Happened to the Great Stock of Seebeck Postal Stationery - RMPL

A look at the history surrounding the printing and distribution of Seebeck Postal Stationery, as well as how the Scott numbering system came to be. From a presentation given by Michael Schreiber. at the Rocky Mountain Stamp Show in Denver, Colorado 2019.

[michaelschreiber]

one more correction:


at about 26:13 -- The 1897 envelope with William Handshaw corner is a reprint envelope.

[michaelschreiber]

I made a few errors in my talk. Here are the corrections:


at about 6:00 -- I do not know if Charles J. Phillips and Nicholas Seebeck ever met. If they did, it would have been before Seebeck died in 1899.


at about 16:10 -- Gus Calman for a time was operating his stamp business out of the 299 Pearl Street Manhattan office his father's varnish business, not out of the varnish factory on Long Island.


at about 24:50 -- In one picture J. Walter Scott is in his 30s, not his 40s.


at about 27:25 -- J.E. Handshaw sold his postal stationery stock to Siegfried Schachne in 1921. The audio sounds like I am saying only "19."


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