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1902-03 Second Bureau Series

Regular issues

Scott 300, 1¢ Franklin, plate number 3103

Scott 300, 1¢ precancel, plate number 2259

Scott 300 var, preprint paper fold, used, plate number 3953 (Image courtesy of eBay / stuffpreserve)

Scott 301, 2¢ Washington "Flag" variety, plate number 1729

Scott 301 var, 2¢ "Flag" variety, inverted and reversed watermark, plate number 1573

Scott 301 var, 2¢ "Flag" variety, misperfed vertically, plate number 1523

Scott 301S, 2¢ specimen, plate number 1513 (Image courtesy of HipStamp / buystamps)

Scott 319, 2¢ "Shield" Type I, carmine, plate number 2316

BEP experienced numerous cracked plates and similar printing issues with the first 1902 "Flag" design, and substituted the "Shield" design as a replacement in 1903.

Scott 319, 2¢ "Shield" Type I, carmine, precancel, plate number 3375

Scott 319 var, 2¢ "Shield" Type I, red, plate number 2634

Scott 319b, 2¢ "Shield" Type I, carmine rose, plate number 3723

Scott 319 var, 2¢ "Shield" Type I, misperfed horizontally, plate number 3812

Scott 319F, 2¢ "Shield" Type II, lake, plate number 4707

Scott 319F var, 2¢ "Shield" Type II, misperfed vertically, plate number 4488

Scott 319Fi, 2¢ "Shield" Type II, carmine, plate number 4669

Scott 319Fj, 2¢ "Shield" Type II, carmine rose, plate number 4447

Scott 319Fk, 2¢ "Shield" Type II, scarlet, plate number 4545

Scott 319Fe (unlisted), 2¢ "Shield" Type II, graphically cropped from a vertical pair imperf horizontally error, plate number 4475

Scott lists a vertical pair imperforate horizontally as 319e, for the Type I stamp. However, plate 4475 was only used to print Type II, so this must be a variety of 319F.

Scott 302, 3¢ Jackson, plate number 3523

Scott 302S, 3¢ specimen, plate number 1586

Scott 303, 4¢ Grant, plate number 4264

Scott 303 var, 4¢ precancel, plate number 1478

Scott 303SE, 4¢ specimen, plate number 1477 (Image courtesy of HipStamp / buystamps)

Scott 304, 5¢ Lincoln, plate number 4190

Scott 304SE, 5¢ specimen, plate number 1537

Scott 305, 6¢ Garfield, plate number 1598

Scott 306, 8¢ Martha Washington, violet black, plate number 1500

Scott 306 var, 8¢ precancel, plate number 2803

Former Scott 306a, 8¢ black, plate number 3576

Scott 307, 10¢ Daniel Webster, plate number 2829

Scott 308, 13¢ Benjamin Harrison, plate number 3840

Scott 309, 15¢ Clay, plate number 1607

Scott 310, 50¢ Jefferson, plate number 1602

Scott 311, $1 Farragut, plate number 1629

Scott 312, $2 Madison perf 12, plate number 1630

Scott 313, $5 Marshall perf 12, plate number 1620

Imperforate issues

Scott 314, 1¢ imperforate, used, plate number 3122

Scott 314 var, 1¢ imperforate with Brinkerhoff Type I private vending machine perfs, plate number 3228

Scott 314 var, 1¢ imperforate with Schermack Type I private vending machine perfs (8 holes), plate number 3119

Scott 314 var, 1¢ imperforate with Schermack Type III private vending machine perfs (2 oblongs), plate number 4734

Scott 314 var, 1¢ imperforate with U.S. Automatic Vending Machine Co. Type I private vending machine perfs, plate number 4559

Scott 320, 2¢ carmine, Type I, plate number 3453

Scott 320b, 2¢ scarlet, Type I, plate number 4323

Scott 320c, 2¢ carmine rose, Type I, plate number 3453

Scott 320 var, 2¢ carmine, Type I, U.S. Automatic Vending Machine Co. Type III private vending machine perfs (7 holes), plate number 4146

Scott 320A, 2¢ lake, Type II, plate number 4671

Scott 320A var, 2¢ lake, Type II, Brinkerhoff Type II private vending machine perfs, plate number 4704

Scott 320A var, 2¢ lake, Type II, Schermack Type III private vending machine perfs, plate number 4718

There are no known plate number examples of the 4¢ imperforate, Scott 314A. The entire printing of 10,000 stamps, in the brown shade, was processed into coils with private Schermack Type III perforations, and then used on several large mailings from Detroit in 1908. Philatelic author and researcher Ken Lawrence noted that a used horizontal paste-up pair with plate number 4255 underneath was reported in the early 20th Century, but it is not among the 64 known examples in the current Scott 314A census. No photo of it is known. If it exists, it was last seen sometime before 1943.

Scott 315, 5¢ imperforate, plate number 4073

Scott 315 var, 5¢ imperforate with Schermack Type III private vending machine perfs, plate number 4073 (Image courtesy of the Philatelic Foundation)

Coil stamps

Scott 317, 5¢ Lincoln endwise coil, plate number 2952