Z1501s

Great Americans

Johns Hopkins

Fred Collins Signature

Summer 2023 Mail Sale 

Lot 28 Z1501 — Johns Hopkins — One-Dollar High Value Stamp — 6-7-89

Hopkins was a successful merchant, investor, and philanthropist. At age 17, he settled in Baltimore. He invested in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and became its finance director. He was a strong supporter of Abraham  Lincoln and_the Union cause. He prospered by selling various goods and wares in the Shenandoah Valley from conestoga wagons. His fortune, however, came from a wide array of varied investments with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Johns gave money to important causes his whole life. His funding established the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University. My hand painted cachet is a dandy picturing Hopkins, one of his covered wagons, a railroad, a merchant steamer, a diploma, and medical equipment. The onedollar stamp has a magenta first day cancel from Hopkinton, Massachusetts. This is an exceptional "entire" first day cover.