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STATISTICS
Issued: The 30¢ 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: 617,250.
Color: Orange brown or bright orange brown.
Common use: The stamp was most commonly used in combination with other stamps to pay high foreign mail rates.
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE DESIGN
The vignetted design was fashioned after Felipe Maso de Falp painting “Columbus Before the Franciscans at La Rabida”.
VARIETIES
There are no varieties of the 30¢ 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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