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5c Abraham Lincoln plate proof
Object Details
- Description
- With the 1902 definitive stamps, Lincoln was "promoted" from 4¢ to 5¢, the denomination for international first-class letters that weighed less than one ounce. General Ulysses S. Grant had been on the 5¢ stamp of the 1894 series, but Lincoln was substituted because he was more recognizable overseas and projected a better image of American greatness abroad. Blue was the color specified by the Universal Postal Union for stamps that paid the foreign letter rate. The stamp was later reissued in imperforate and coil formats, the latter being a great rarity of twentieth-century U.S. philately.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- January 20, 1903
- Object number
- 0.242263.2985
- Printer
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- Type
- Bureau Plate Proofs
- Medium
- paper; ink (blue) / engraving
- Place
- United States of America
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 304
- Scott Catalogue USA 315
- Record ID
- npm_0.242263.2985
- Usage
- CC0
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