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  2. Postage stamps and postal history of the United States

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    The 5-cent stamp paid for a letter weighing less than 1/2 ounce and traveling up to 300 miles, the 10-cent stamp for deliveries to locations greater than 300 miles, or, twice the weight deliverable for the 5-cent stamp. Each stamp was hand engraved in what is believed to be steel, and laid out in sheets of 200 stamps.

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

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    In 1855 the postal rate for mail bound for destinations over 3,000 miles was increased from 6 cents to 10 cents, a change that prompted the issue of the 1855 10-cent Washington stamp. This 10-cent green issue was printed by Toppan, Carpenter, Casilear & Co. who reused the engraving of Washington (the vignette) of the 12-cent Washington 1851 ...

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

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    The second set of four stamps of 5, 10, 15 and 20 cents, depicted the various transportation methods for delivering the mail. [5] The 20-cent U.S. Parcel Post stamp of 1912 had the distinction for being the first postage stamp in history to depict an airplane (identified as an "aeroplane"), six years before the U.S. Post Office Department ...

  5. Check Your Attic: These Stamps Are Worth Millions - AOL

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    1856 British Guiana One-Cent Magenta. $9.48 million. Known to philatelists as the "Mona Lisa of stamps," the British Guiana One-Cent Magenta is the world's most famous rare stamp.

  6. History of United States postage rates - Wikipedia

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    However, this legislation was set to expire in April 2016. As a result, the Post Office retained one cent of the price change as a previously allotted adjustment for inflation, but the price of a first-class stamp became 47 cents: for the first time in 97 years (and for the fourth time in the agency's history) the price of a stamp decreased. [32]

  7. What your old stamps are worth now

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