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ISSUE 167 - November 1, 2024 - Stamp News Online Magazine

The Stamp Specialist:
Thru the Newbury Deluxe Collection of Nineteenth Century
U. S. with Stanley B. Ashbrook, Part 2                

(From The Stamp Specialist Blue Book, #6, published in 1941, with images added)

10 Cent 1855

The 10¢ 1855
May 19th, 1855 Earliest Known Use

The Ten Cent 1855. What a stamp this is, the stamp of the Argonauts, with the head of Washington surmounted by the thirteen stars of the 13 original colonies. From the cities and farms of New England and the other eastern states to the most isolated gold mining camps in that far off empire of California, the grand old 10¢ green traveled back and forth bringing tidings of home to the . . . 

Continue reading: Thru the Newbury Deluxe Collection of Nineteenth Century U. S, Part 2. with Stanley B. Ashbrook [PDF Document]

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