BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (Gross Gallery 6): Stamps Around the Globe

DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (Gross Gallery 6): Stamps Around the Globe:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. STAMPG_140706_001.JPG: Brazil: Bull's-Eyes: These 1843 Brazilian "Bull's-eyes" were the first national postage stamps issued in the Western hemisphere. They were engraved and printed on a press that was confiscated by Brazilian customs officials and given to the nation's mint. The elaborate engraving behind the numerals made forgery difficult.
2. STAMPG_140706_006.JPG: 30r Bull's-eye single, 1843 60r Bull's-eye single, 1843 90r Bull's-eye single, 1843
3. STAMPG_140706_008.JPG: Canada St. Lawrence Seaway Invert: Canada and the United States jointly issued a stamp to honor the 1959 opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway. During the printing of the Canadian stamp, a few sheets were fed into the press upside down -- inverting the image. The inverted stamp here is one of only 24 that were actually used.
4. STAMPG_140706_020.JPG: 5c St. Lawrence Seaway invert error single, 1959 5c St. Lawrence Seaway single, 1959
5. STAMPG_140706_023.JPG: Egypt: Mosque Millennium: These are essays (trial designs) for stamps that were never issued. The stamps were intended to honor the millennium of Cairo's first mosque, Al-Azhar Mosque. Formerly in the collection of Egypt's King Farouk, the essays were seized and sold during the 1952 revolution that deposed him.
6. STAMPG_140706_027.JPG: 6m Millennium of Al-Azhar Mosque essay, 1942 10m Millennium of Al-Azhar Mosque essay, 1942 15m Millennium of Al-Azhar Mosque essay, 1942 20m Millennium of Al-Azhar Mosque essay, 1942
7. STAMPG_140706_032.JPG: Congo Free State: Inverted Waterfall: This 1895 stamp features Stanley Falls (now Boyoma Falls), a famous natural wonder. A single sheet of 100 stamps was printed with the waterfall inverted. Of those 100 stamps, only about 40 survive today.
8. STAMPG_140706_053.JPG: 10c River Scene on the Congo invert error single, 1895 10c River Scene on the Congo single, 1895
9. STAMPG_140706_059.JPG: China: Jenny Over the Great Wall: Issued in 1921, this was China's first airmail stamp, for service from Peking to Shanghai. It shows a Curtiss Jenny airplane flying over the Great Wall of China. On the tail is the symbol of Sun Yat-Sen's republican China. In 1929 the stamp was reissued with the nationalist sun emblem.
10. STAMPG_140706_063.JPG: 90c Curtiss Jenny over Great Wall airmail die proof, 1921
11. STAMPG_140706_069.JPG: Germany: Kaiser Wilhelm II Invert: This 1905 stamp shows Kaiser Wilhelm II giving a speech in 1896 for the German Empire's 25th anniversary. Because of their high face value, the stamps were printed only in sheets of 20. The scarcity of inverted images like this one suggests the error occurred in only one sheet.
12. STAMPG_140706_079.JPG: 5m Kaiser Wilhelm II invert
13. STAMPG_140706_092.JPG: Great Britain: Victoria Regina: The letters "VR" in the upper corners distinguish this stamp from an ordinary Penny Black. The stamps were intended for government mail, but the government never issued them. Officials destroyed 94 percent of the copies printed. Most of the surviving unused copied had been distributed earlier.
14. STAMPG_140706_102.JPG: Greece: World's First Stamp? Some experts believe this stamp was issued in 1841, making it (not Great Britain's Penny Black) the first stamp. But all four known covers date from after 1840, and the stamps do not seem to have been used for postage. One theory is that the proceeds went to a charity or public project.
15. STAMPG_140706_115.JPG: Italy: Cito Cito Cito Addressed to medieval Venice's powerful Council of Ten, this letter is marked with two gallows, five stirrups, and the word "cito" repeated five times. The gallows threaten death by hanging to anyone interfering with the mail, while the stirrups indicate that the letter should travel on horseback. "Cito" means "haste."
16. STAMPG_140706_121.JPG: Letter from Brescia to Venice, 1502
17. STAMPG_140706_122.JPG: India: SIndh Dak Post: These stamps from the Sindh district were the first issued in India -- and in Asia. In 1854 the Indian government recalled all unused stamps from Sindh, making them scarce today. The red stamp is also rare because the fragile wax caused many to fall apart. Sindh is now in Pakistan.
18. STAMPG_140706_125.JPG: 1/2a Sindh Dak District Post single, 1852 1/2a Sindh Dak District Post single, 1852
19. STAMPG_140706_127.JPG: Israel: Hebrew Post: When Israel issued its first stamps in 1948, the new nation had not yet decided on a name. The inscription at top read Doar Ivri, meaning Hebrew Post. These high value stamps have their tabs (printed pieces of sheet margin), which may collectors removed to fit the stamps in albums.
20. STAMPG_140706_137.JPG: Jamaica: Unissued Abolition Stamp: In 1921 Jamaica planned to release this stamp marking the abolition of slavery. It was cancelled at the last moment when falling sugar prices led to unrest among sugar and dock laborers, who were mostly black. The following year a stamp showing Port Royal in 1853 replaced the original stamp.
21. STAMPG_140706_140.JPG: 6p Abolition of Slavery unissued vertical pair, 1921 6p Port Royal in 1853 single, 1922
22. STAMPG_140706_145.JPG: Mauritius: Impressions of Queen Victoria: In 1848 Mauritius, then a British colony, issued stamps showing Queen Victoria at age 18. The soft copper plates wore down quickly, resulting in the changes visible in this group of early to late impressions. Some stamps contain an engraver's error: "PENOE" instead of "PENCE."
23. STAMPG_140706_158.JPG: Mexico: One of Mexico's Rarest Stamps: Victoriano Huerta seized Mexico's presidency in 1913, and the state of Sonora became a stronghold of northern opposition forces led by Alvaro Obregon. Revolutionary postage embossed with the word Constitucional demonstrated Sonora's anti-Huerta sentiments. This example, one of two known unused copies of this variety, is among Mexico's rarest stamps.
24. STAMPG_140706_172.JPG: French First Empire: Napoleon's Retreat from Russia: In 1812 an Italian soldier in Napoleon's multinational Grand Armee -- the largest fighting force Europe had ever seen -- wrote this letter home from Prussia during the army's retreat from Russia. Only a third of the men survived. The brown military postal marking, used during the retreat, is rare.
25. STAMPG_140706_184.JPG: Panama: Independent Panama Waves Its Flag: This original artwork for Panama's 1906 1/2-centesimo stamp came from the archives of the printer -- Hamilton Bank Note Company in New York. Panama adopted the flag shown here after the nation gained independence from Colombia in 1903.
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Description of Subject Matter: Stamps Around the Globe
September 22, 2013 – Permanent
International stamps make up more than half of the museum's collections. See some of the rarest and most famous stamps from 24 countries on six continents. Browse more than 700 stamps, one from every country that has ever produced stamps—including many countries that no longer exist. At interactives, explore how stamps reflect their countries of origin and connect people, places, and cultures worldwide.
On view May 3-11, 2014, is an extremely rare philatelic item, referred to by stamp experts as the “genesis of philately.” The May 2, 1840, cover shows the earliest known use of two different philatelic elements: the Penny Black, the world’s first adhesive postage stamp, and the Mulready One Penny letter sheet.
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