Rarity Revealed: The Benjamin K. Miller Stamp Collection

by Scott R. Trepel

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introductions: Allen R. Kane, Director, Smithsonian National

Postal Museum and Paul LeClerc, President, The New York

Public Library

Preface: W. Wilson Hulme II, Curator of Philately, Smithsonian

National Postal Museum

Chapter 1: Benjamin K. Miller

Chapter 2: The Philatelic House that Miller Built

Chapter 3: All the Pieces of the Puzzle

Chapter 4: The Theft

Chapter 5: Stamps – A Nation’s Ambassadors to the World

Chapter 6: The Beginnings of American Postage Stamps – 1842-1847

Chapter 7: The Antebellum Era – 1851- 1861

Chapter 8: Stamps of the Union – 1861-1865

Chapter 9: Mr. Steel’s Invention – 1867-1868

Chapter 10: Pictorials and Portraits of the Bank Note Company Era – 1869-1890

Chapter 11: $16.34 for a Set of Stamps – 1893 Columbian Issue

Chapter 12: The Bureau of Engraving and Printing Takes Over – 1894-1898

Chapter 13: Celebrations of Manifest Destiny and Technology – 1898 Trans-Mississippi and 1901 Pan-American Issues

Chapter 14: New Stamps for a New Century – 1902-1908 Issue

Chapter 15: The Era of Washington and Franklin – 1908-1922 by Ken Lawrence

Chapter 16: The Age of Automation: Private and Government Coils – 1906-1927 by Ken Lawrence

Chapter 17: 20^th Century Celebrations – 1903-1926 Commemorative Issues

Chapter 18: The Mails Fly and a Stolen Invert is Recovered – 1918

Chapter 19: Paying Dues – 1879-1923

Chapter 20: Newspapers and Godesses – 1865-1895

Appendix: The Missing Stamps

Sources

Acknowledgements