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  2. Postage stamps and postal history of the United States

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    The issue and use of adhesive postage stamps continued during the 19th century primarily for first-class mail. Each of these stamps generally bore the face or bust of an American president or another historically important statesman. However, once the Post Office realized during the 1890s that it could increase revenues by selling stamps as "collectibles", it began issuing commemorative stamps ...

  3. 1869 Pictorial Issue - Wikipedia

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    1869 Pictorial Issue. The 1869 Pictorial Issue is a series of definitive United States postage stamps released during the first weeks of the Grant administration. Ten types of stamp in denominations between one cent and ninety cents were initially offered in the series, with eight of these introduced on March 19 and 20, 1869 and the two ...

  4. Elvis Presley single - Wikipedia

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    The Elvis Presley single, colloquially " Young Elvis ", was a 29-cent first-class United States postage stamp first available on January 8, 1993. It was released as the first stamp from the Legends of American Music stamp series. The stamp's design was the subject of a postal vote conducted by US Postal Service between two candidates. The stamp was unveiled in Graceland on what would have been ...

  5. Legacy of Harriet Tubman - Wikipedia

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    Tubman was the first African-American woman to be honored on a U.S. postage stamp when a 13-cent stamp designed by artist Jerry Pinkney was issued by the United States Postal Service in 1978. A second, 32-cent stamp featuring Tubman was issued in 1995. [47]

  6. History of United States postage rates - Wikipedia

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    Postal rates to 1847. Initial United States postage rates were set by Congress as part of the Postal Service Act signed into law by President George Washington on February 20, 1792. The postal rate varied according to "distance zone", the distance a letter was to be carried from the post office where it entered the mail to its final destination.

  7. Minkus catalogue - Wikipedia

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    The Minkus catalogue was a comprehensive of American and worldwide postage stamps, edited by George A Tlamsa and published by Krause Publications. In the United States Minkus competed with the Scott catalogue as a distant second. Generally sold through department store stamp collecting departments, it had its own system of numbering stamps ...

  8. Philately - Wikipedia

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    Philately ( / fɪˈlætəli /; fih-LAT-ə-lee) is the study of postage stamps and postal history. It also refers to the collection and appreciation of stamps and other philatelic products. [1] While closely associated with stamp collecting and the study of postage, it is possible to be a philatelist without owning any stamps. [2] For instance, the stamps being studied may be very rare or ...

  9. U.S. Parcel Post stamps of 1912–13 - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Parcel Post stamps of 1912–13 were the first such stamps issued by the U.S. Post Office Department and consisted of twelve denominations to pay the postage on parcels weighing 16 ounces and more, with each denomination printed in the same color of "carmine-rose". Their border design was similar while each denomination of stamp bore its own distinctive image in the center ( vignette ...

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