The Great Texas Stamp Collection: How Some Stubborn Texas Confederate Postmasters, a Handful of Determined Texas Stamp Collectors, and a Few of the … Postage Stamps (Charles N. Prothro Texana)

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Among the many difficulties the newly formed Confederate States of The united states endured in the summer of 1861 was once the failure of its post office department to provide sufficient numbers of that item most a very powerful to its service: the postage stamp. Faced with the resulting din of customer complaints, a handful of industrious Texas postmasters solved the problem by simply making their own homemade stamps.

In this thoroughly researched history of these rare and highly coveted stamps, The Great Texas Stamp Collection traces their journey from creation through their rediscovery years later by local, and then international, stamp collectors—a journey that culminated in the sale of a couple of pieces at a latest auction in New York that fetched more than $250,000. Weaving the larger contexts of Texas and U.S. postal history along with individual tales of greed, intrigue, forgery, and discovery, Deaton’s book is rich with characters from European royalty to early stamp dealers to common criminals, even as also providing detailed examinations of the stamps themselves, including a complete census of the stamps now referred to as the Texas Confederate Postmasters’ Provisionals.

Appealing at once to devoted philatelists, Texas and U.S. history buffs, and amateur collectors of a wide variety, The Great Texas Stamp Collection offers a unique vantage point from which to view our history in addition to the very nature of collecting.

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