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Benjamin Franklin — George Washington The First U.S. Postage Stamps, issued 1847. The first stamp issues were authorized by an act of Congress and approved on March 3, 1847. [20] The earliest known use of the Franklin 5¢ is July 7, 1847, while the earliest known use of the Washington 10¢ is July 2, 1847.
The National Philatelic Collection is a collection of nearly six million postage stamps, revenue stamps, and related items, owned by the United States Government and managed by the Smithsonian Institution. It is housed within the National Postal Museum and a portion of the collection is on display in the museum's National Stamp Salon.
An album in which the mounts are affixed at the factory, either as mounts for individual stamps or as larger strips, is called "hingeless". First Edition Lallier Postage Stamp Album 1862. World's first postage stamp album. First American Postage Stamp Album published by Appleton 1863.
Jacques Marquette (1898, 1968) Explorer [37] George Catlett Marshall (1965) Secretary of State, Army general. George Catlett Marshall on a 1967 stamp. Thurgood Marshall (2003) Supreme Court Justice [6] Roberta Martin (1998) Gospel singer, musician, and songwriter. Edgar Lee Masters on a 1970 stamp.
The Minkus catalogue was a comprehensive of American and worldwide postage stamps, edited by George A Tlamsa and published by Krause Publications. In the United States Minkus competed with the Scott catalogue as a distant second. Generally sold through department store stamp collecting departments, it had its own system of numbering stamps ...
The first Scott catalogue was a 21-page pamphlet with the title Descriptive Catalogue of American and Foreign Postage Stamps, Issued from 1840 to Date, Splendidly Illustrated with Colored Engravings and Containing the Current Value of each Variety. It was published in September 1868 by John Walter Scott, an early stamp dealer in New York, and ...
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