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  • 10c Daniel Webster bottom plate block of six

    Date
    1895
  • 10c Panama-Pacific Exposition left plate block of six

    Date
    August 1913
  • $5 John Marshall small die proof

    Date
    1903
  • 2c Hudson-Fulton Celebration imperforate right arrow block of four

    Date
    1909
  • 5c Norse-American Centenary Viking Ship top plate block of eight

    Date
    1925
  • 2c Trans-Mississippi Farming in the West bottom plate block of ten

    Date
    1898
  • 4c Abraham Lincoln Universal Postal Congress overprint single

    Date
    1897
  • 6c John Quincy Adams approved large die proof

    Date
    1939
  • Letter from Philadelphia Great Central Fair cover

    Date
    May 30, 1864
  • 22c Ameripex 86 single

    Date
    1985
  • 3c Washington imperforate strip of three

    Date
    c. 1852
  • 90c Washington trial color card proof

    Date
    1881
  • $2.60 "Graf Zeppelin" Passing Globe large die proof

    Date
    1930
  • Confederate patriotic Valentine enclosure

    Date
    February 14, 1863
  • 8c William T. Sherman left arrow block of four

    Date
    1895
  • 30c Alexander Hamilton State Department card plate proof

    Date
    1893
  • 7c William McKinley with Kans. overprint plate block of four

    Date
    1929
  • 3c Byrd Antarctic Expedition II autographed souvenir sheet

    Date
    February 10, 1934
  • 3c Washington bottom plate block of six

    Date
    1908
  • 1c Washington Farwell Company group 4 type B vending coil pair

    Date
    1912
  • 50c Graf Zeppelin rejected photograph model

    Date
    1933
  • 10c Washington double transfer single

    Date
    1855
  • 1c Pan-American Fast Lake Navigation invert single

    Date
    1901
  • 12c Henry Clay Treasury Department single

    Date
    1873

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    • U.S. Stamps 3115
    • The Gilded Age (1877-1920) 271
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    • Covers & Letters 188
    • U.S. Classics 121
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    • Great Depression 58
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    • Military & Policing Forces 21
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    • The Roaring Twenties (1920-1929) 9
    • Contemporary (1990-present) 7
    • Colonial Era (1607-1776) 6
    • Literature 6
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    • Postage stamps 3177
    • Correspondence 169
    • Covers & letters 169
    • Certified plate proofs 51
    • Postal stationery 14
    • Maps 12
    • Postal money orders 12
    • Archival materials 7
    • Printing and printmaking equipment 2
    • NPM Archives 1
  • Date
    • 1680s 1
    • 1760s 3
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    • 1810s 4
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    • 1840s 30
    • 1850s 94
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    • 1880s 98
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    • 1950s 5
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    • CC0 1096
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