1c Franklin Type Ia single
Object Details
- Description
- used; blue cancellation; position 97R4; "Curl in C of CENT" variety
- Type Ia has a complete design at the bottom, as does Type I, but the top edge of the design has been trimmed off. Type Ia is found only on eighteen of the twenty bottom row positions from Plate 4. It is one of the rarest types of the 1-cent imperforate issue.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- July 1, 1851
- Object number
- 1980.2493.30
- Depicts
- Benjamin Franklin, American, 1706 - 1790
- Printer
- Toppan, Carpenter, Casilear and Company
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (blue) / engraving
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 6
- Topic
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_1980.2493.30
