James Parsons Major

[Great Britain][USA] (b 1818/d 1900)

James P. Major came to America in 1830 and settled in Brooklyn (NY). Employed by the American Bank Note Company for over half a century. Moved to Somerville (NJ) after 1872. 

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Biography

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interesting considerations about some of the first US stamps

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Obituary of James Parsons Major (Boston Evening Transcript 1900)

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United States of America 1847 "Portraits of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington" (2,2,2) [Engr (A.B. Durand)][Recess (Rawdon, Wright,, Hatch & Edson, New York)] Sc(1,2) [ images credit of Stampworld ]

"I found in the Net some references about other stamps designed by James P. Major, but I have no data in the Catalogs about them.. that is the case of the 1863 Costa Rica series, for example, that in the catalogs appear as work of the American Bank Note Company.. I know that James P. Major worked in the ABNC in those days , but I have no access to this kind of data , and if it exists I don't understand why it is not in it's proper place .. A Catalog.."