1c Captain John Smith plate proof
Object Details
- Description
- Certified plate proofs are the last printed proof of the plate before printing the stamps at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. These plate proofs are each unique, with the approval signatures and date. For postal scholars these plates provide important production information in the plate margin inscriptions, including guidelines, plate numbers, and initials of the siderographer, or person who created the plate from a transfer roll.
- Plate No. 3799
- Denomination: 1c
- Subject: Captain John Smith
- Color: green
- Jamestown Exposition – Captain John Smith, 1907
- Clair Aubrey Huston, Bureau of Engraving and Printing artist, designed the 1¢ stamp. The central vignette, a portrait of Captain John Smith, is after an engraving by Crispin Van de Passe the younger. Medallions in the upper corners depict Pocahontas and her father, Chief Powhatan. Smith was both a military commander and civil leader in the colony.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1907
- Object number
- 0.242263.4281
- Type
- Bureau Plate Proofs
- Medium
- paper; ink (green) / engraving
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 328
- Topic
- The Gilded Age (1877-1920)
- Record ID
- npm_0.242263.4281
