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50c Iron "Betty" Lamp single
Object Details
- Description
- The 50-cent black, orange, and tan 1979 stamp of the Americana Issue honors America's light, picturing the Iron "Betty" Lamp from Plymouth Colony (17th-18th centuries) and the wording "America's Light Sustained by Love of Liberty."
- mint
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- September 11, 1979
- Object number
- 1985.0022.1298
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink ( ); adhesive
- Place
- United States of America
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 1608
- Topic
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_1985.0022.1298
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