Black Jack (stamp)

Black Jack or Blackjack was the 2-cent denomination United States postage stamp issued from July 1, 1863 to 1869, is generally referred to as the "Black Jack" due to the large portraiture of the United States President Andrew Jackson on its face printed in pitch black.^[1] It is considered to be a key stamp in any collection of US stamps.^[2]

The stamp was issued to fulfill a need for a reduced rate, 2-Cent denomination for newspaper, magazine, and local deliveries; and was often used to "make up" higher rates, or split in half to make up lower ones (a 1-Cent stamp) due to shortages at the local post office.^[1]

During the Civil War, the "Black Jack" was supposed to have been favored by both North and South, but as soon as the South got news of the North making a stamp depicting one of their own heroes, they printed a 2-Cent stamp depicting the same portrait of Jackson on their own 'Red Jack' postage stamp in reaction.

After the War was over, poverty inspired people to wash off the cancellation from the stamps and attempt to use them again. The Government then decided to put an antitheft device onto the stamps known as a grill. This grill, which consisted of various rows of tiny indentations into the stamps, was supposed to make it impossible to wash off the cancellations without being detected; but people usually got around this by bisecting the stamp, and then reusing that portion that didn't have a cancellation on it. The first grill applied to a Black Jack stamp is known as the "Z" grill, introduced in January 1868. Over the next few months, the Post Office successively employed three smaller grill patterns (D, E and F) in the production of this stamp.

Die varieties

Steven Metzger has researched the production of 2¢ Black Jacks. He has revealed more details on the different dies used than those mentioned in the Scott Specialized Catalogue. There are ‘dots in scroll’ on plate 53, found to the right of the left ‘2’. These marks are not thought to be secret marks. The ‘star on cheek’ plate variety (plate 57) was discovered by Maryette B. Lane in the 1960s. Both varieties are thought to have resulted from a rusted die.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "2-cent Jackson issue of 1863". Smithsonian National Postal Museum. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
^ "The Black Jack: A key stamp for any U.S. collection". Linn's Stamp News. 5 September 2018. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
^ A Sharp Eye on collecting US Classics (Sharp Photography Publications, 2021) ASIN B091MBTGJ7 (read online, page 31)

External links

Siegel Auction Galleries - 1867–68 U.S. Grilled Issues

Sources

Scott Publishing Company, 2005 Specialized Catalogue of United States Stamps and Covers (2004)
Lester G. Brookman, The 19th Century Postage Stamps of the United States (1947, vol. I) [exhaustive information about "grills"]
Tiffany, John Kerr (1887). History of the postage stamps of the United States of America. St. Louis, Mo.: C. H. Mekell.
Luff, John N. (1902). The postage stamps of the United States. New York: Scott Stamp & Coin Co., ltd.

Philately of the United States

Pre-stamp

Provisional stamps	Alexandria "Blue Boy" Postmaster's Provisional United States postmasters provisional stamps New York Postmaster's Provisional St. Louis Bears
19th century	1869 Pictorial Issue Black Jack Columbian Issue Hawaiian Missionaries Lost Continental Trans-Mississippi Issue Western Cattle in Storm Z Grill
20th century	All Aboard! 20th Century American Trains Americana series Antarctic Treaty issue Bicentennial Series Breast cancer research stamp Celebrate the Century Comic Strip Classics Elvis Presley single Federal Duck Stamp Five cents John Kennedy Fourth Bureau issue Great Americans series Hanukkah stamps Liberty Issue Norse-American Centennial Oklahoma Statehood Stamps Overrun Countries series Presidential Issue Prominent Americans series Series of 1902 Special handling stamps Transportation coils U.S. Parcel Post stamps of 1912–13 US Regular Issues of 1922–1931 War savings stamps Washington Bicentennial stamps of 1932 Washington–Franklin Issues
21st century	Distinguished Americans series Elvis Presley Forever stamp Nature of America Raising the Flag at Ground Zero Statue of Liberty Forever stamp 2017 Total Solar Eclipse stamp
Airmails	1918 Curtiss Jenny airmail stamps 1930 Graf Zeppelin stamps Inverted Jenny List of United States airmail stamps
EFOs	CIA invert Dag Hammarskjöld invert Inverted Jenny Nixon invert Pan-American invert
Topicals	Artworks on stamps of the United States Commemoration of the American Civil War on postage stamps History of Virginia on stamps List of people on the postage stamps of the United States Postage stamps and postal history of the Confederate States Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps Puerto Rico on stamps Territories of the United States on stamps U.S. space exploration history on U.S. stamps Women on US stamps

Postmarks	Earliest reported postmark Fancy cancel
Collections and museums	Benjamin Miller Collection Cardinal Spellman Philatelic Museum Florida Postal Museum National Philatelic Museum National Postal Museum
Miscellaneous	Air Mail Act of 1925 Air Mail scandal Apollo 15 postage stamp incident Barefoot mailman Boat Railway Post Office Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee Express mail in the United States History of United States postage rates Mail jumping Pneumatic tube mail in New York City Postal history of Oregon Railway Mail Service Rural Free Delivery Star routes U.S. Special Delivery
Postal services	American Letter Mail Company Butterfield Overland Mail Pony Express San Antonio–San Diego Mail Line United States Post Office Department United States Postal Service
Publications	The American Philatelist Higgins & Gage World Postal Stationery Catalog Linn's Stamp News Minkus catalogue Scott catalogue

Stamp
production

Designers	American stamp designers
Companies	American Bank Note Company Bureau of Engraving and Printing Homer Lee Bank Note Company

Organizations

v t e Andrew Jackson
7th President of the United States (1829–1837) Senator from Tennessee (1797–1798, 1823–1825) Federal Military Commissioner of Florida (1821) U.S. Representative for Tennessee at-large (1796–1797)
Life	Battle of Hanging Rock Hunter's Hill The Hermitage Creek War Fort Strother Battle of Talladega Battles of Emuckfaw and Enotachopo Creek Battle of Horseshoe Bend Treaty of Fort Jackson Battle of Pensacola (1814) Battle of New Orleans Seminole Wars 1824 United States presidential election United States Senate Committee on Armed Services Corrupt bargain 1828 United States presidential election Andrew Jackson 1828 presidential campaign Coffin Handbills Jacksonian democracy
Presidency	First inauguration of Andrew Jackson Tenure of Office Act (1820) Spoils system Petticoat affair Kitchen Cabinet Indian removal Indian Removal Act Trail of Tears Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek Bank War Senate censure Banking in the Jacksonian Era Hard money Specie Circular 1829 State of the Union Address 1830 State of the Union Address 1832 United States presidential election 1832 Democratic National Convention Maysville Road veto Second inauguration of Andrew Jackson Nullification crisis Tariff of 1832 Ordinance of Nullification Force Bill Tariff of 1833 Pet banks Panic of 1837 List of federal judges appointed by Andrew Jackson
Public image	List of memorials to Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson (U.S. Capitol statue) King Andrew the First (1832) Andrew Jackson (Washington D.C. and New Orleans statues) Black Jack stamp The President's Lady The Buccaneer (1938) The Buccaneer (1958) The Gorgeous Hussy The Remarkable Andrew Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Man of Conquest USRC Jackson (1832) USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619) USS President Jackson
Family	Rachel Jackson (wife) Andrew Jackson Donelson (adopted son) Daniel Smith Donelson (adopted son) Lyncoya Jackson (adopted son) Emily Donelson (acting First Lady) Sarah Yorke Jackson (acting First Lady) John Hutchings (nephew) Poll (pet)
Slaves	Jackson and slavery Jackson as slave trader Gilbert Alfred Jackson Hannah Jackson
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