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"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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