570-NIM GP, 50c Arlington Amphitheatre 11/11/22, WORDEN
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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 #570 50c Arlington Amphitheater (Flat Plate Printing, Perf 11) FDC Sing, Wash. DC 11/11/22, GP black rubber stamp cachet "DAY OF ISSUE", neatly addressed by typewriter to Edward C. Worden of Milburn NJ [an early spelling of Millburn]. CATALOG VALUE: Mellone 2008 Scott CV = $210 for Uncacheted FDC Single; Brookman 2008 CV = $175. Mellone, 2008 U.S. Scott FDC Catalog, 2007 lists the 2008 CV of an uncacheted #570 FDC Single, at $1200. Brookman 2008 Price Guide lists the same item at $1000. The average 2008 CV of the two is $1,100.. Covers addressed to Worden tend to command a premium, which I estimate to be in the range of 25% over an uncacheted cover. This translates to $1100 x 125% = $1375 estimated 2008 CV for the offered item. CONDITION AND VALUATION ISSUES: The flap is closed, and the cover is slit open neatly at left. There are three small hinge remnant stains on the reverse (see scan). The apparently contemporaneous black general purpose rubber-stamped cachet "DAY OF ISSUE" adds some premium, which I estimate as equal to the minor hinge marking on the reverse side. POSTAL HISTORY NOTE: Scott #570 50c Amphitheater 11/11/22 (Flat Plate Printing – Perf 11). The 50c value of the Fourth Bureau Issue depicts the Amphitheater in Arlington Cemetery, lilac in color, pictured without the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier for artistic reasons. Earlier scenes considered for the 50c value and rejected in favor of the Amphitheater, include the Capitol and Vernal Falls in Yosemite. The 50c Amphitheater was issued on Veterans Day, 11/'11/22. (Johl, Vol. III, 1935, p. 136.) . There are two 50c Amphitheater stamps in the Fourth Bureau, with 2008 CV as follows from Mellone, 2008 U.S. Scott FDC Catalogue, 2007, pp. 16 and 32, and Brookman, 2008 Price Guide, p. 163 and 168: (This Listing è) #570 11/11/22 Amphitheater Flat Plate Perf 11 – 2008 CV S$1200 B4$1650 in Mellone, p. 16; S$1000 in Brookman, p. 163; #701 9/4/31 2d Rotary Perf 11 x 10-1/2 – 2008 CV S$475 B4$875 in Mellone, p. 32; $S400 in Brookman, p. 168; References Brookman/Barrett & Worthen, 2008 Brookman Price Guide, Bedford NH:Brookman/Barrett & Worthen, 2007. 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”) 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”). About Worden. [Note Revised 10/1/08] Edward Chauncey Worden, born Ypsilanti MI 4/17/1875 (American Men of Mark, 1917), died 9/22/1940 (Science, 1940, p. 306), a consulting chemist and author, produced or arranged a spectacular quantity of early FDCs from his combined residence/laboratory/library at 188 Sagamore Ave in the Wyoming Section of Millburn, Essex County, NJ (less than a mile from South Orange, my childhood home town). His FDCs were mostly addressed to himself at Millburn (often spelled “Milburn”) by mimeograph, addressograph plate or typewriter, on envelopes without cachets, beginning with the 1922 launch of the Fourth Bureau Regular Postage Issue, and ending in 1929. Worden in New Jersey was in the right place at the right time in the fledgling FDC industry. The Fourth Bureau Issue was a “Cambrian Explosion” of dozens of beautiful new designs, which coincided with increased access for FDC servicers and collectors located outside of Washington DC. With guidance from the 1921 formation of the Philatelic Agency of the P. O. Dept in Washington, Third Assistant Postmaster-General Irving Wallace Glover adopted the policy of announcing most new issues well in advance, and placing many new issues on First Day sale not just in DC, but also in historically relevant local post offices throughout the nation (Harvey, 1985, p. 7). The earliest cover addressed to or serviced by Worden I have seen is the #E12 10c Special Delivery issued 7/12/22, followed by the #563 11c Rutherford B. Hayes (Flat Plate Printing), issued 10/4/22 -- the first stamp of the Fourth Bureau Series to appear. The last Worden I have seen is a #655/656 FDC Combo, on Worden’s “Analytical and Consulting Chemist” Corner Card, of the Electric Light Rotary Press and the Electric Light Coil Stamp issued 6/11/29. Mellone Planty Vol. I, 1994 lists a number of Worden Corner Cards (e.g., #551-6 for 1/2c Hale Flat Plate Printing, p. 17, and the famous #622-1 13c Harrison blue-green generic “FIRST DAY COVER” rubber stamp cachet, p. 40), but there is no listing for any Worden cachet or cover in First Cachets Revealed, 2006. Inspired by the famous career-counseling advice to Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate (“Young man – Plastics! ...”), I’ve wondered how Worden juggled his two careers -- plastics chemist and FDC servicer. One of these days, I will get my hands on a copy of the article by Stanley H. Fryczynski Jr., “Edward C. Worden, Pioneer First Day Cover Collector,” in the July-August 1961 issue of First Days, July. If anyone knows how to research genealogy online, please tell us whether Edward Chauncey Worden’s obviously strong postal gene could have been inherited from Chauncey P. Worden, who was appointed Postmaster of Hartland, Livingston County, MI by President Lincoln, on March 19, 1861 (Prechtel-Kluskens, 2007, p. 33). Thanks to Google searching, I’ve put my hands on some dated milestones in Worden’s plastics career that can be held alongside his active FDC servicing career from 7/12/22 to 6/11/29. In 1896 he received the degree of Ph.C. (Pharmaceutical Chemist) from the University of Michigan, and later the degrees of B.S. in 1907 and M.A. in 1909 from New York University. He was a member of the firm of Crane and Worden, Chemists of New York City, some of his clients being Celluloid Zapon Company, Springfield NJ 1900-02, and the Clark Thread Company 1902-14. He was elected a Fellow of the Chemical Society of London, and a Member of the American Chemical Society and Society of Chemical Industry. (American Men of Mark, 1917). (See additional degrees and honors listed below.) In 1911 Worden authored a well-received two-volume 1239-page book entitled Nitrocellulose Industry, published by Constable & Company in London. In 1916 he announced plans for a ten-volume expansion of this earlier work, entitled Technology of Cellulose Esters, and D. Van Nostrand Company simultaneously published in New York the initial volume of this series, Vol. VIII. In 1921 E.& F.N. Spon, Ltd. published another volume in London, Vol. I. The Preface to that Vol. I reaffirms Worden’s intention to publish a full ten volumes, incorporating his twenty-five years of research, which he described as 335,000 references arranged on some 365,000 cards. (Worden, Vol. I, 1921, p. vi.) Twelve years later, in 1933 he finally completed a full version of 3396 pages reduced to five volumes, Technology of Cellulose Esters (Five Volumes), self-published in Millburn NJ by the Worden Laboratory and printed by the Newark Printing Co. of Newark NJ. During March and April 1929, Worden filed three patent applications for related inventions, which later resulted (in 1931) in the grant of U.S. Patent No. 1,814,106, for “Manufacture of Cellulose Material from Musa Fibers.” Immediately after that, Worden serviced his last known FDC, for #655 and #656, 2c Electric Light Rotary Press and Coil, issued June 11, 1929. I read someplace (I believe in First Days) that the October 1929 stock market crash caused financial difficulties for Worden and his family. Perhaps that is why, in finally completing his Technology of Cellulose Esters in 1933, he cut the planned number of volumes in half. Perhaps Worden’s financial circumstances are also responsible for the end of his FDC servicing career. I speculate that as the 1920s progressed, Worden’s brand of uncacheted FDCs for the Fourth Bureau regular postage issue encountered increasingly stiff sales competition from the hordes of cachetmakers marketing pictorial cachets for commemorative FDCs. During the past ninety years, Fourth Bureau uncacheted FDCs of servicers such as Worden, Nickles and Ward have, like all tangible collectibles, appreciated amazingly with scarcity and monetary inflation of the U.S. dollar. However, during the Great Depression that followed 1929, it must have been tough to justify a business model that involved sinking capital into unsold inventory held for eventual long term appreciation. George Ruderman (eBay ID georgelisbeth) recently passed on the recollection that his father, Jack Ruderman of Newark and Montclair, was a partner with the famous Harry Citret on Park Place, Newark. George remembers traveling as a young boy during the Depression years to Washington with his father and Citret to purchase stamps. George inherited boxes of Worden FDCs and FFCs (First Flight Cachets) from his father, many of which he no longer has, with this explanation: “The story of how he obtained these is that Worden loved to play cards (all of this during hard times for these men) and when he lost, payment was made with stamps rather than with hard cash. That apparently is how my father ended up with covers addressed to Worden, Citret and Leo Rutstein.” (Email from George Ruderman to me, 10/1/08). Worden died on Sep 22, 1940, at the age of 65. A scant one-line obituary in Science (Oct 4, 1940, p. 306) described him only as “Edward Chauncey Worden, consulting chemist, who was the head of the Worden Laboratory and Library at Millburn, N.J.,” not mentioning his publications, and without using the honorific “Dr,” as was done with some other obituaries on the same page. In the FDC world, Worden usually referred to himself simply as “Edward C. Worden, but the mimeographed addresses of Worden’s FDCs of the First Rotary Printing #588, 589 and 590 issued 5/29/26, are directed to “Dr. Edward C. Worden,” thereafter reverting to the plain “Edward C. Worden” on subsequent FDCs. In addition to the degrees and honors noted above in American Men of Mark, 1917, the frontispiece of Technology of Cellulose Esters includes additional credentials: D.Sc. (this means Doctor of Science – equivalent to a Ph.D. according to Wikipedia.com), F.S.A. (what does that mean?), F.L.S. (this means Fellow of the Linnean Society in London), and F.I.F.S. (what does that mean?). I would appreciate any additional information or insights anyone has into the life of Edward C. Worden, which I will append here as a continuing blog. About Essex County, NJ. During the 1920s and 1930s, Essex County NJ (where I was born and raised and spent my entire working career) was a hotbed of FDC pioneers. A huge benefit was and is convenient railroad access to nearby New York City east from Newark and points further west along the Delaware Lackawanna & Western RR, and also south from Newark to Washington DC along the Pennsylvania Railroad. Some of these FDC greats were: Leo and Sam August of Washington Stamp Exchange, later Artcraft (first Newark, then Maplewood, today Florham Park in adjacent Morris Co.), Edward C. Worden (then Milburn, later spelled Millburn), Albert C. Roessler (first Newark, then East Orange), Egon and Fred Bernet of Newark Stamp & Coin (then Newark, today Irvington where Fred of the 3d generation still operates), C. Stephen Anderson (West Orange), Clarence E. Reid (Newark) , C.L. Elliott (Montclair), J. Clifford (Newark), and Harry Citret (Newark). Nearby Bergen County NJ, even closer to New York, attracted John Alden of Pilgrim Cachets in West Englewood, and John C. Sidenius of East Rutherford. 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. 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. and Cusick, A.W., On the Maturation of Philately – A Guide to Authors, First Days, July/Aug. 2008, vol. 53(5), pp. 27-33. 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”) Prechtel-Kluskens, C., The Nineteenth-Century Postmaster and his Duties, NGS NewsMagazine, Jan/Feb/Mar 2007, p. 33. ___, Recent Deaths, Science, Oct 4, 1940, vol. 92, No. 2388, p. 306. ___, “Worden, Edward Chauncey,” A Thousand American Men of Mark of Today, Chicago, Illinois: American Men of Mark, 1917 (available online at Google Book Search, www.google.com, digitized 9/6/2007 from original at Harvard University, visited 9/30/08). Worden, E.C., Nitrocellulose Industry (Two Volumes), London, England: Constable & Co., 1911 (available online at Digital Library of India, http://dli.iiit.ac.in) Worden, E.C., Technology of Cellulose Ethers, Vol. VIII – Carbohydrate Carboxylates, New York, NY: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1916 (available online at Google Book Search, http://books.google.com/books). Worden, E.C., Technology of Cellulose Ethers, Vol. I – Cellulose, Starch, Cotton, London, England: E.& F.N. Spon, Ltd., 1921 (available online at Google Book Search, http://books.google.com/books). Worden, E.C., Technology of Cellulose Ethers (Five Volumes), Millburn, NJ: Worden Laboratory and Library 1933 (available online at Google Book Search, http://books.google.com/books). Worden, E.C., Inventor, “Manufacture of Cellulose Material from Musa Fibers,” U.S. Patent No. 1,814,106, US Patent Office July 14, 1931 (available online at www.freepatentsonline.org/1814106.html). ___, Wyoming Society Notes & News of the Week, The Millburn & Short Hills Item, Dec. 18,1942, p. 12. 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. Brookman/Barrett & Worthen, 2008 Brookman Price Guide, Bedford NH:Brookman/Barrett & Worthen, 2007. 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”). 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. and Cusick, A.W., On the Maturation of Philately – A Guide to Authors, First Days, July/Aug. 2008, vol. 53(5), pp. 27-33. 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”) Powered by eBay Turbo Lister SquareTrade © AP6.0
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