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STATISTICS
Issued: The 15¢ was officially issued on January, 1st 1893, a Sunday, and at Post Offices the following day.
Plate Size: Sheets of 100 subjects (2 panes of 50).
Printer: The American Bank Note Company.
Watermark: None.
Quantity Issued: 1,576,950.
Color: Dark green, green or dull green.
Common use: The stamp was most commonly used to pay triple the standard foreign mail rate of 5¢.
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE DESIGN
The design came from a painting by Ricardo Baloca y Cancico. This painting was destroyed in the Spanish Civil War.
VARIETIES
There are no varieties of the 15¢ Columbian issue.
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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