ISSUE 151 - July 7, 2023 - Stamp News Online Magazine
Yestereday in Mekeel's:
The St. Louis Bear Stamps
(From Mekeel's Weekly, July 18, 1938, with photos added)
by B. W. H. Poole
By an Act passed by the U.S. Congress March 3, 1845, uniform rates of postage were established for the whole of the country in place of the varied and, at times, excessive charges which had hitherto been in force. No provision seems to have been made for the issue of adhesive postage stamps for the prepayment of . . .
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