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  • 6r Numeral single

    Date
    1843
  • 24c Curtiss Jenny grounded plane single

    Date
    1918
  • 60p Barley full sheet of stamps on album page

    Date
    1958
  • 2c Warren G. Harding block of four

    Date
    1923
  • 8c Sherman single

    Date
    1895
  • Postage Stamp

    Date
    2001
  • 2c Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition bottom arrow block of four

    Date
    1909
  • Forever American Scientists pane of twenty

    Date
    2011
  • 1pi Palestine Blue first day cover on album page

    Date
    February 10, 1918
  • Jerusalem to Port Said cover with postmark on used stamps on album page

    Date
    February 2, 1943
  • $1.92 Ceres Newspaper and Periodical small die proof

    Date
    1903
  • First Day Domestic Card

    Date
    Canceled: November 16, 1951 (FDI)
  • 3c Postage Due single

    Date
    1917
  • 10c Robert Frost single

    Date
    March 26, 1974
  • 4c Quetzal single

    Date
    1964
  • 5pi Hejaz with inverted overprint single

    Date
    1925
  • Interregnum Overprint on 20c Papal Arms single

    Date
    February 20, 1939
  • 37c Greetings from Indiana single

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    October 25, 2002
  • 42c Purple Heart single

    Date
    April 30, 2008
  • 12c Henry Clay Treasury Department Panama-Pacific small die proof

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    1915
  • 2-k Rzhev singles

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    1869-1874
  • 8c Franklin single

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    1918
  • 4c Madison horizontal coil single

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    January 20, 1939
  • Postage Stamp

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    2001

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