Sujet

15c Landing of Columbus re-issue single, 1875. Creator: National Bank Note Company.

Légende

15c Landing of Columbus re-issue single, 1875. Used; perf 12; re-issue of 1869; without grill;In 1875, Post Office Department officials decided to exhibit samples of all previously issued stamps at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia the following year. Since this required a special printing, the department ordered extra copies for sale to stamp collectors.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM21A89_178

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

68,8Mo (3,2Mo) / 42,0cm x 41,0cm / 4960 x 4846 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Europe blue close up people male group man men communication communications red education discovery country money finance exploration guy landing continent European color New World location century Colonial old fashioned arrival ink explorer concept exhibition stamp printing arriving postage close-up cent collecting discovering lettering post office engraved engraving exposition philately United States of America Colour Smithsonian Institution postal service postage stamp capital letter 19th century stamp collecting Educational Institution nineteenth century postage stamps American history America USA 15th century colonialism colonisation fifteenth century scientific institution Christopher Columbus perforated engraving ink object united states Christopher Columbus Cristobal Colon Centennial Exposition Centennial International Exhibition Heritage Art coloniser 19th-century Postage Stamps National Postal Museum 15 cents re-issue reprint National Bank Note Company National Banknote Company National Bank-Note Company hard white paper ink (brown blue) engraving