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First Day Domestic Card
Object Details
- Description
- 6-cent postal card depicting Paul Revere with commemorative cachet. The first in a series honoring Revolutionary heroes. Issued to comply with the increase in postage rates. Printed on a web-fed Potter-Hoe rotary press by method of letterpress (typography). Designed by Howard C. Mildner. UPSS S77.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- Canceled: May 15, 1971 (FDI)
- Object number
- 2001.2001.39
- Printer
- Government Printing Office
- Depicts
- Paul Revere, American, 1735 - 1818
- Type
- Postal Stationery
- Medium
- paper; ink (brown)
- Dimensions
- 8.2 x 14 cm (3 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.)
- Place
- United States of America
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA UX58
- Record ID
- npm_2001.2001.39
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