United States, Scott #3761A, used(o) coil, 2014, Americana Design Series, Chippendale Chair; the fourth stamp in the series; Thomas Chippendale (1718-1789) was a British cabinet maker whose designs were published, as order books, and copied on both sides of the Atlantic; records dating from before the American Revolution prove that there were many skilled cabinetmakers at work in the colonies; Boston and Philadelphia had over 150 known cabinet makers; another center was Newport, Rhode Island; in the the South, craftsmen-slaves produced equally fine work. and since all had access to Chippendale's London ‘Order Book’, all these American cabinetmakers were producing Chippendale-style furniture before the American Revolution; since most were undocumented and unsigned, collectors need to look to form and attributes; the chairs are typically unique in their yoke shaped top rails, their intricately pierced back splats, and cabriole legs, and originals will show evidence of hand planing and sawing, handmade nails, shrinkage in the wood, dense grain of slow-growth ancient trees, and the like; issued at the definitive rate of 4 cents, serpentine die cut simulated perforations: 9¾ vertical, imperforated at top and bottom, perforated at the sides, photogravure printed by Ashton Potter USA (APU), issued on non-water soluble self-adhesive gum, ‘USPS’ in white microprint at the upper left edge (versus lower left in earlier Chippendale sheet stamps), red, tan, and brown, Scott 2025 catalog value: 25¢, nicely centered (superb), very faint remnant of a half circular, black-inked, single rim showing-rimmed, socked-on-the-nose cancellation at the upper left and well clear of the main image, stamp was soaked from the mailing envelope using the Bestine solvent and placed, first on a piece of white paper to show color contrast, then on a piece of black trimmed card stock for an attractive and uniform album appearance, stamp has lost its surface ink along the perforation edges, suspect some sort of customer coil separation mechanism, otherwise good perforations. This is not a 'bait-and-switch;' the stamp you see will be the one you receive.
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