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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 2875944, member: 15062&quot;]OK</p><p>The Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) is the bible on the subject.&nbsp; Sections 604.1.2 and 604.1.3 are the sections relevant to this subject.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]688355[/ATTACH]</p><p>Although not implicitly stated, the implication is that stamps issued before 1860 are no longer valid to use for postage.&nbsp; The reason for this is that at the outbreak of the Civil War, the stamps then in use, printed from 1851-1857, were demonetized to prevent the southern post offices from selling them to raise cash for the Confederate States.&nbsp; The original two stamps issued in 1847, a five cent and a ten cent, weren&#039;t covered by the ban but very few were printed and probably all had been used by 1860.</p><p><br /></p><p>You are correct about the lack of worth of newer stamps, although I would put the cutoff date at 1938 with the presidential series.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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