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  2. Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps

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    When the American Bank Note Company received the federal contract to print postage stamps in 1879 it printed the second Taylor issue (identical in appearance to the 1875 issue) on soft porous paper, using the original dies of Continental Bank Note Company. The engraving of Taylor was modeled after a daguerrotype of Taylor by Civil War ...

  3. Personalised stamp - Wikipedia

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    A German personalised stamp. A personalised (or personalized) stamp is a postage stamp on which, for a fee, an image and/or text of the purchaser's choosing may be placed. The stamps vary from country to country, and while some are normal stamps with a personalised label on the left attached by perforations, elsewhere the stamps are more properly regarded as one-piece personalised meter stamps ...

  4. Presidential Issue - Wikipedia

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    With its total of 32 stamps, this was the largest definitive series yet issued by the U. S. Post Office. In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, himself a serious stamp collector, fostered the idea of a set of stamps honoring all the deceased past presidents of the United States. A national contest was held in 1937 to choose a designer for the ...

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  6. Die proof (philately) - Wikipedia

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    Die proof for the United States Jefferson issue of 1861 Approved proofs from Waterlow and Sons printers for a Bolivian stamp issue of 1943. (Subsequently punched for security purposes.) In philately a Die Proof is a printed image pulled directly from the master die for an engraved stamp.

  7. William Spratling - Wikipedia

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    Spratling's earliest work can be characterized as inspired expressions in silver, resembling the power of the reliefs on the Temple of Quetzalcoatl at Xochicalco or the pre-Columbian clay stamps he admired. [9] The designs incorporate sinuous lines that were deeply carved, with strong light and shadow contrasts.