Homer Lee Bank Note Company

The Homer Lee Bank Note Company produced

American Bank Note Company

The Homer Lee Company grew in the 1880s and 1890s by producing

Crane and Company in Dalton, Massachusetts. Homer Lee hired Thomas F. Morris, perhaps best known for his later work as the government's Chief of the Bureau of Engraving, from the American Bank Note Company to be his superintendent.^[2] The Homer Lee Bank Note Company produced currency and postage stamps for numerous foreign governments before amassing debts and being taken over by the American Bank Note Company in 1891.^[3]

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References

^ New York Times (May 29, 1883). "COMPETING WITH THE GOVERNMENT.; AN OUTSIDE FIRM BIDS LOWER THAN THE BUREAU OF ENGRAVING". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-08-29.
^ New York Times (January 20, 1898). "DEATH LISE OF A DAY (Obituary of Thomas F. Morris)". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-08-29.
^ New York Times (October 28, 1891). "CITY AND SUBURBAN NEWS (The Homer Lee Bank Note Company has been absorbed...)". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-08-29.

Sources

New York Times, September 4, 1883 (New Postal Notes)

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
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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

See also

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