Sujet

15c Abraham Lincoln re-issue single, 1875. Creator: National Bank Note Company.

Légende

15c Abraham Lincoln re-issue single, 1875. Unused; perf 12; re-issue of 1861-66 issue;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_208

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

58,9Mo (3,7Mo) / 35,2cm x 42,0cm / 4152 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

portrait close up people male man men communication communications education politics country money finance law guy color political location century old fashioned ink lawyer president lawyers concept exhibition stamp printing postage close-up B&W one person cent collecting lettering looking away post office politician engraved engraving exposition philately United States of America Colour Smithsonian Institution postal service postage stamp capital letter 19th century stamp collecting presidential black & white black and white B W politicians Educational Institution abolitionist nineteenth century postage stamps statesman American America USA abolition anti-slavery scientific institution Abraham Lincoln perforated President of the United States of America engraving ink portrait united states Lincoln Abraham A Lincoln Centennial Exposition Centennial International Exhibition Heritage Art President Lincoln 19th-century Postage Stamps National Postal Museum 15 cents ink (black) engraving re-issue reprint National Bank Note Company National Banknote Company National Bank-Note Company hard white paper