5c Davis single
Object Details
- Description
- CSA 5-cent Jefferson Davis. Issued imperforate. Press-printed locally by Archer & Daly, Richmond, Virginia, from electrotype plates supplied by Thomas De La Rue & Co., Ltd, London. Impressions are coarse with many plate and printing faults, resulting in recognizable varieties.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1862
- Object number
- 2005.2004.1511
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper (white wove paper in two distinct grades: either thin glazed paper imported from England or an inferior thick coarse paper of local manufacture); ink (shades from pale blue to dark blue); gum (two distinct gums - thin gum or an inferior thick, darker gum)
- Place
- Confederate States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue CSA 7
- Topic
- U.S. Related Areas
- Record ID
- npm_2005.2004.1511
- Usage
- CC0
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