Lot
4079 E
Morgan Envelope Co., 1875, 1¢ Brown and Black on Card, Model Essay, model drawing in black ink on 146 x 93mm white "Bristol" board, India ink wash with lead pencil shading lines on the large letters United States, stamp has been cut from a normal brown postal card and pasted on, 125 x 71mm design border with 129.5 x 76mm lead pencil outer border, Very Fine. Scott No. UX4E. USPCC No. S3E-A $4,500.
A REMARKABLE MODEL ESSAY BY MORGAN ENVELOPE CO. FOR THE 1875 POSTAL CARD ISSUE.
The Morgan Envelope Co. contract of May 1, 1873 did not expire until June 30, 1877. But early in 1875, Geo. N. Tyner, U. S. Postal Card Agent at Springfield, Mass. (where the Morgan Envelope Co. was situated) notified his superiors in the Post Office Department at Washington that the dies making up the two 36-subject plate forms were becoming badly worn and needed replacement. This presented a problem, since the master die and transfer roll had been produced by and were still in the possession of, the National Bank Note Co. They were not willing to hand over the dies as they were unhappy with losing the contract to print postage stamps.
Realized: $2,400