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STATISTICS
Issued: The 10¢ was officially issued on January, 1st 1893, a Sunday, and at Post Offices the following day. There are a couple of examples postmarked in New York, N.Y., on January 1st, 1893.
Plate Size: Sheets of 100 subjects (2 panes of 50).
Printer: The American Bank Note Company.
Watermark: None.
Quantity Issued: 16,516,950.
Color: Black brown, dark brown or gray black.
Common use: The stamp was most commonly used for the combined first-class rate and registered mail fee which totaled ten cents
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE DESIGN
The design is a reproduction of Luigi Gregori’s ‘Return of Columbus and reception at court’ , now located at the Univ. of Notre Dame in Indiana.
VARIETIES
Brookman mentions that there is a variety that has the words ‘Columbus Presenting Natives’ in long, thin and irregularly shaped letters, however there is no recorded example of this. There are no other varieties.
ESSAYS AND PROOFS
Despite the popularity of the Columbian series there are very few essays and proofs on the market.
- Brookman, Lester G., U.S. Postage Stamps of the 19th Century, Lindquist 1966
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