Postage Stamps

As the special-delivery stamp closely resembled the 1-cent and 4-cent Columbian stamps, giving rise to mistakes in the payment of postage and the treatment of […]

One-cent. — Profile bust, after Ceracchi, of Benjamin Franklin, looking to the left, on an ellipse, with a dark background and narrow white border, immediately […]

These stamps are alike except as to the denominations, which are expressed by Arabic numerals in the middle upon an elliptic ground of delicate lathework. […]

1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, 6-, 8-, 9-, and 10-cent— Allegorical figure of Freedom, looking to the right, and modeled after Crawford’s statue upon the dome […]

The franking privilege having been abolished, to take effect on the 1st day of July 1873, the Postmaster General, as required by law, provided a […]

One-cent — a lined rectangular ground is left uncovered near the edges of the stamp on all sides. Inside this, a more distinctly outlined border […]

The sizes of these stamps vary from the 13/16 of an inch circle on the 1-cent to 13/16 by 27/32 of an inch in dimension. The designs were furnished […]

One-cent — profile head of Franklin, looking to the right, in an ellipse as large as could be placed upon the stamp, viz 1 by […]

These stamps are obsolete and worthless for postage. A reasonable time after hostilities began in 1861 was given for the exchange of stamps in the […]

Five-cent — portrait of Franklin reproduced from a drawing by James B. Longacre, three-quarters face looking left, white neckerchief and fur collar to coat, the […]