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Gems of American Philately

September 22, 2013 - TBA

Museum: Postal Museum

Location: William H. Gross Gallery, Entrance Level

Examine 13 of the rarest and most highly valued gems in the world of philately, including the most famous US stamp of all, the 1918 Inverted Jenny. A video explains why the Inverted Jenny and other stamps are philatelic gems. Each of these items tells a story about a significant milestone in US history—from a surviving revenue stamp proof of the 1765 Stamp Act that so infuriated the American colonists to a lunar mail cover postmarked on the Moon by astronaut Dave Scott in 1971.

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