History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of America

History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of America is by John K. Tiffany. The contents list names, among others, a preface, an introduction and chapters on the U. S. City Dispatch Post, Uniform Postage and Postmaster's Stamps. The text says that in New York a certain A. M. Greig had established a local delivery and employed an adhesive stamp, charging but two cents when the government exacted three. The text says the act of 1836 had authorized the Postmaster General to establish a carrier system in such cities as he might think advisable.

The text gives a letter, dated August 1st, 1842, authorizing the postmaster at New York to make the appointment. The text describes an issue of March 19th, 1869, composed of ten values each of a different type, with the head of Franklin, in profile, looking to the left, on the one cent. The text says the reprinted five cents is from plate No. 2 without the top and bottom projection, and that the color is a decided yellow brown, unlike any of the shades of the original.