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3c California Gold Centennial single
Object Details
- Description
- This California Gold Centennial Issue stamp depicts Sutter's Miller in Coloma, California, where James W. Marshall's discovered gold, prompting the California Gold Rush. The stamp commemorates the centennial of this discovery in 1848.
- United States; California; Sutter's Mill; James W. Marshall; gold; gold rush; landscape; centennial
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- January 24, 1948
- Object number
- 1980.2493.4019
- Printer
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (dark violet); adhesive / engraving
- Place
- California
- United States of America
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 954
- Topic
- Technology & Inventions
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_1980.2493.4019
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