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  • Domestic Postal Card

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    SERIES OF 1952
  • 10p Map of Colombia single overprinted in black

    Date
    1959-1960
  • 15c Baltimore Cathedral single

    Date
    June 4, 1979
  • 3c 75th Anniversary of American Bar Association plate proof

    Date
    August 4, 1953
  • 15c Trinity Church single

    Date
    October 9, 1980
  • 5 lire Apparition of the Virgin Mary single

    Date
    February 21, 1958
  • 44s Globes single

    Date
    October 4, 1957
  • 4c Soil Conservation plate proof

    Date
    June 29, 1959
  • 25c Paul Revere single

    Date
    April 18, 1958
  • 2c Thomas Jefferson plate proof

    Date
    October 1, 1954
  • 13 ounces Tobacco Strips Series 125 taxpaid revenue stamp single

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    1955
  • 25 Cigars Class D Series 125 taxpaid revenue stamp single

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    1955
  • 10 Cigarettes Class A Series 125 taxpaid revenue stamp block of six

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    1955
  • 20c Documentary revenue stamp pane of 100

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    1954
  • 25c Documentary revenue stamp single

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    1954
  • 2c Narcotic revenue stamp single

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    1919-1964
  • 4c Abraham Lincoln first day of issue program

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    September 19, 1965
  • Washington Jubilee Exhibition badge for C.L. Manning

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    1955
  • Neil Armstrong cachet handstamp

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    1985
  • Postal clerk chest badge, number 8443

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    1950s
  • 10c Map single

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    February 1, 1952
  • 10m Map of Suez Canal and Ship single

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    1956
  • experimental cancel on cover with uncatalogued dummy indicium

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    1959
  • 4 ounces Snuff Series 125 taxpaid revenue stamp block of nine

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    1955

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