Certificate
Object Details
- Description
- Certificate of the witnesses to the destruction of the die and plates of the 1847 Issue of US postage stamps. Signed on behalf of Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson and by W. V. Brady, the New York City postmaster.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- December 13, 1851
- Object number
- 1997.2001.44
- Writer
- Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson
- Recipient
- William V. Brady
- Type
- Archival Material
- Medium
- paper; ink / handwritten
- Dimensions
- 25.1 x 20.0 cm (9.875 x 7.875 in.)
- Place of Origin
- New York, New York
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Topic
- American Expansion (1800-1860)
- Record ID
- npm_1997.2001.44
- Usage
- CC0
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