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Julian Hawthorne was the son of famous author Nathaniel Hawthorne. An author in his own right, he and a friend used the family name to sell stock in Canadian silver mines. The mines turned out to be non-existent. As a result both he and his partner served time in prison for mail fraud. Stamps with this pattern 1-3-5-7-9 were used to perpetrate this mail fraud. If you’d like to learn more about this, read my article in the The United States Specialist, November, 2017. |
