JACOB PERKINS NEWSPAPER REFERENCE 上市 Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 7, Number 47, November 21, 2004, Article 13
JACOB PERKINS NEWSPAPER REFERENCE
Bob VanRyzin writes: "The following may be of interest to
E-Sylum readers. I found this reference to Jacob Perkins in
a eBay lot for an old newspaper. The following is from lot
description for seller Mitchell Archives." (Just the quote
"We hear..." appears in the paper, the other comments
about Perkins are from the seller.)COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, Boston, July 11, 1792. One
of the finest and most respected of the old Boston
newspapers, published by the newspaper legend, Benjamin
Russell, a staunch Federalist and George Washington supporter.Page two, MASSACHUSETTS, "We hear that the ingenious
Mr. Perkins, of Newburyport, has been sent for to Philadelphia
to execute the coinage of the United States."Jacob Perkins was a man of many talents, he designed and
produced the dies for Massachusetts first coinage, the 1787
penny. He was the first to use steel plates in place of copper
for printing, making counterfeiting more difficult. He designed
the first practical refrigerator and he was the printer of the
first POSTAGE STAMP, THE ENGLISH "PENNY BLACK.I also ran into an interesting web site, which you may be aware
of, on Perkins' family history. History"- 2004-11-21
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