568 FDC 25c Niag on U429 w 405 11/11/22, Svcd HAMMELMAN Start Price USD 319.00 Current Price USD 319.00 Time Left 21 days 11 hours 31 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, December 02, 2008 End Time Saturday, January 31, 2009 Location Denver, Colorado See more about '568 FDC 25c Niag on U429 w 405 11/11/22, Svcd HAMMELMAN' Description   Quahoghunter Added Value in the Classic FDCs Store:     (1)  Find It.  Use the links at left to find Cachetmaker and Subject of all eBay auction and buy-it-now items currently active.   (2)  Identify It.   Scott & Mellone/Planty Numbers are provided in the title of all listed items.  (3) Value It.  View current Catalog Value info on all listed stamps & cachets.  (4)  Appreciate It.  Read Postal History Notes about the item, with citation of references in compliance with Monty & Cusick, First Days, July/Aug 2008 pp. 27-33.   (5) Gently Fondle it for Two Weeks.   I will cheerfully refund price paid with no questions asked, upon same-condition return of any item that does not satisfy you, if you notify me in the two weeks following date of sale.   (6)  Trust it.   If you persuade me that you were misled by an inaccurate or incomplete item description, I will apologize, return the S&H and insurance originally paid by you, and reimburse your return postage.  (7) Copy it.  ©2008 Classic FDCs.  All Rights Reserved, except that permission is hereby granted to copy all or part of this listing, if this legend is included:  “Reprinted by permission of Classic FDCs (eBay User ID Quahoghunter).”    DESCRIPTION OF OFFERED ITEM:   Scott #568 25c Niagara Falls FDC (Flat Plate Printing, Perf 11) with #405 1c Wash (not also FDC) on #U429 2c Wash Size 7 (8-7/8x3-7/8") Embossed Envelope (not also FDC), Serviced by FDC Pioneer Henry Hammelman of Washington DC, typewriter addressed (not his usual Calligraphic addressing) to his subscriber Mr. J. J. Dwyer of Washington DC.         CATALOG VALUE:   Mellone 2008 Scott CV = $700 for Uncacheted FDC of #568.  The Comparable Brookman 2008 CV is the same.  Catalog Details:    Mellone, 2008 U.S. Scott FDC Catalog, 2007, p, 16,  lists the 2008 CV of an uncacheted #568, postmarked Washington DC 11/11/22, at $700.  Brookman Price Guide, 2007, p. 203, also lists the 2008 CV of this item at $700.    FDCs addressed to or serviced by pioneer Henry Hammelman tend to command a premium over uncacheted covers, which I estimate to be 20%.  This translates to a 2008 CV of $700 x 120% = 2008 CV of $805 for the offered item.   References   Brookman/Barrett & Worthen, 2008 Brookman Price Guide, Bedford NH:Brookman/Barrett & Worthen, 2007.   Mellone, M.A., 2008 U.S. Scott First Day Cover Catalogue & Checklist, Stewartsville, NJ: FDC Publishing Co., 2007 (herein “2008 U.S. Scott FDC Catalog, 2007”).    CONDITION AND VALUATION ISSUES:  The flap is shut, and the cover is neatly slit open at left.  Although the #U429 #7  Embossed Envelope (issue of 1916-1932) and the #405 (issued 2/12/12) are not also FDCs, they lend interest to the cover.   POSTAL HISTORY NOTE:     Scott #568 25c Niagara Falls 11/11/22 Flat Plate Printing – Perf 11).   The 25c value in the Fourth Bureau Issue depicts Niagara Falls, jointly owned by the United States and Canada.  The view depicted is from a photograph taken from Goat Island looking toward the American side.  Originally the 25c value was intended for the Arlington Amphitheatre subject and the 20c value was intended for Niagara Falls, but both of these subjects were bumped up a notch higher when it was decided to use the Golden Gate as the subject of the #567 20c value.  The #568 25c Niagara Falls was placed on sale on Armistice Day, 11/11/22, along with the #566 15c Statue of Liberty and the #570 50c Arlington Amphitheatre.    There are two 25c denomination stamps from the Fourth Bureau Series:   (This Listing) #568 11/11/22 Flat Plate Printing Perf 11;    #699 7/27/31 2d Rotary Perf 11x 10-1/2.   References   Harvey, J. V., First Day Covers of the Regular Postage Issue of 1922-1935, 2d Edition, AFDCS Handbook #2, Silver Spring MD: American First Day Cover Society, 1985.   Johl, M.G., The United States Postage Stamps of the Twentieth Century, Vol. III – 1922-1934 - Parcel Post - Airmails, 1st Edition, New York NY: H.L. Lindquist, 1935. (herein “U.S. Postage 20th Century Vol. III, 1935”)   About Hammelman.  Henry Hammelman Serviced FDCs and prepared calligraphically addressed FDCs from 1913 to 1927, straddling the Third and Fourth Bureau Regular Postal Series.  The first Hammelman serviced FDCs I have seen pictured is #Q3 3c Parcel Post issued 7/1/13 and addressed to Hammelman without calligraphy, and #Q1 1c Parcel Post issued 7/1/13 and addressed in Hammelman’s distinctive calligraphy to Miss Marie Siebold of Washington D.C.  (The Lawrence S. Fisher Collection, New York City Auction 5/30/96, Lot #132, The Dr. Alfred S. Martin Collection, New York City Auction 3/15/2005, Lot #712.).  The Last Hammelman Cachet I have seen is #UC1, 5c Monoplane Embossed Envelope, issued 1/12/29, addressed calligraphically to Riley Hastings of Cherrydale VA, issued 2/1/29.  Hammelman also issued a First (and Last?) printed cachet  as an add-on to his calligraphic #643-10, 2c Vermont issued 8/5/27 (Mellone, Planty Vol. I, 1994, p. 78; Monty et al., First Cachets Revealed, 2006, p. 9).   Some FDCs with typed addresses exist, addressed to Hammelman regular calligraphic customers (e.g., Aman family members, R.B. Rutledge, William O. and Marie Siebold, E. E. Scherer, and various people addressed at the Golden Stairs Tea Room in New York City).  These typed covers tend to use the smaller-size typewriter font called “elite,” with progressive indents (often 10 spaces each) for the lines for the address.   It appears to me probable (but not entirely certain) that these typed covers were also serviced by Hammelman, and not by some other servicer or by the addressee personally.  Perhaps Hammelman occasionally ran short of time to service all his orders with individually prepared calligraphic addresses, and used a typist (perhaps himself) to help catch up.   I read someplace (I think in First Days) that Henry Hammelman subsequently moved his operation from Washington D.C. to the hotbed of philatelic dealers on Maiden Lane in downtown New York City, where he was quoted as saying that he planned to live off sales of a FDC box of more than 100,000 covers.  Why did he stop issuing new FDCs?  Did the 1929 Crash and Great Depression ruin his sales?  Did he develop calligraphic Writer’s Cramp?   References     ---, The Lawrence S. Fisher Collection of Classic United States First Day Covers and Earliest Known Usages, Catalog of Shreves Postal History Sale May 30, 1996, New York, NY: Shreves Philatelic Galleries, Inc., 1996.   ---, The Dr. Alfred S. Martin Collection, Part I – March 30, 2005 United States Postal History, Catalog of Siegel Sale 893 and McCusker Sale 206A, New York, NY: Siegel Auction Galleries, Inc. and James T. McCusker Inc., 2005.   ---, The Dr. Alfred S. Martin Collection, Part II – March 31, 2005 U.S. First Day Covers and Earliest Documented Usages. United States Postal History, Catalog of Siegel Sale 893 and McCusker Sale 206A, New York, NY: Siegel Auction Galleries, Inc. and James T. McCusker Inc., 2005.   Mellone, M.A., Mellone’s Planty Photo Encyclopedia of Cacheted First Day Covers, Vol. I – 1901-1928, Stewartsville, NJ: FDC Publishing Co., 1994 (herein “Planty Vol. I, 1994”).   Monty, R.A., Doyle, W.L., Goodson, M.W. and Elrod, N.L., Mellone’s First Day Cover Encyclopedia of First Cachets Revealed 1923-2005, 2006 Professional Reference Edition, Stewartsville, NJ: FDC Publishing Co., 2006 (herein “First Cachets Revealed, 2006”).     About The Fourth Bureau Issue.  This FDC is from the Fourth Bureau Regular Postage Issue of 1922-1935, which included a full range of stamp values from 1/2c through $5.00.  It is called "Fourth Bureau Issue" because it was the fourth time the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing had designed and produced a regular (as opposed to a commemorative) issue without contracting the work to private vendors such as the American Banknote Company. The predecessors were the First Bureau Issue of 1894-95, the Second Bureau Issue of 1902-03, and the Third Bureau Issue of 1908-09.   The Third Bureau Issue, which continued in use until 1922, had only two designs (Washington and Franklin) for a full range of stamp values from 1c to $5.00, with appearance distinguished mostly by a confusing palette of obscure color shades.     FDC collecting became a U.S. national passion in 1922, thanks to a “perfect storm” of (i) the Fourth Bureau “Cambrian Explosion” of many beautiful new designs, and new P.O. Dept policies of (ii) pre-announced FDC dates, and (iii) expansion of first-day sales to the post offices of cities outside Washington. The Fifth Bureau Issue which followed the Fourth Bureau Issue is the familiar 1938 Presidential Series (“Prexies”), which were issued between 1938 and 1941.   References.   Harvey, J. V., First Day Covers of the Regular Postage Issue of 1922-1935, 2d Edition, AFDCS Handbook #2, Silver Spring MD: American First Day Cover Society, 1985.   Johl, M.G., The United States Postage Stamps of the Twentieth Century, Vol. III – 1922-1934 - Parcel Post - Airmails, 1st Edition, New York NY: H.L. Lindquist, 1935. (herein “U.S. Postage 20th Century Vol. III, 1935”).     Powered by eBay Turbo Lister SquareTrade © AP6.0 Place a Bid!