Allan Taylor bogus Letter Despatch blue carrier stamp Type 1

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An Allan Taylor fantasy
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MR TAYLOR was one of the pioneers of stamp collecting in this country and was the publisher of the first American stamp paper, The Stamp Collector's Record, the first number of which was issued in December 1864 at Albany, two numbers having been previously issued at Montreal in February and March of the same year. Had Mr Taylor not fallen into bad practices his name would today be ranked with those of the leading lights of philately for his knowledge of stamps is very great.
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Taylor, Samuel Allan
(1838-1913). A notorious producer of bogus stamps,
known as 'the Master Grafter' and leader of the
'Boston Gang'.
He was at the height of his fraudulent career in the
period 1863-70, and for one of his productions, a
fictitious U.S. local, used his own portrait in the
design!
Among his more audacious frauds was to add
his own 10¢. value to the then current issue of
Prince Edward Island, and to produce a stamp
for Paraguay at a time when stamps had not
been introduced into that country.
He was also responsible for the Stamp
Collector's Record, the first philatelic
publication in North America, which appeared
for the first time in February 1864 and ran for
more than forty numbers.
- R. J. Sutton 6th edition revised by K. W. Anthony
The Stamp Collector's Encyclopaedia
Published 1966
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S.Allan Taylor was the leader of the 'Boston gang'; a group of forgers located in Boston (see '
Philatelic forgers, their lives and works
' by V.E.Tyler, 1976, for a short review of his life). Taylor operated from about 1862 to 1891 and made many forgeries and bogus United States stamps.
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