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  • 2c Washington proof plate block of four

    Date
    1890
  • 2c Andrew Jackson "Specimen" overprint single

    Date
    1863
  • $5 Sea Shell Cypraea Hesitata single

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    1974
  • 8c Washington Bicentennial rejected model

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    1931
  • Black Raku shallow tea bowl, named Tagoto no Tsuki (Moon in each rice field)

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    1811-1845
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    Edo period
  • Button, Lindbergh, King Collection

  • Peru album page with folded letters

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  • 10c Thomas Jefferson Treasury Department small die proof

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    1903
  • 1kr Numeral single

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    1851
  • Full view of a long brown stick with three interconnected circles at the top. Two sticks extend horizontally out of the main stick with golden rings at their ends. Silver machinery is at the bottom of the stick. Detector, Plasma Wave, OGO-5

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