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Postage stamps

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

The Commonwealth Collection of Silver Jubilee First Day Covers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2008.267
Scope and Contents Scrapbook entitled "The Commonwealth Collection of Silver Jubilee First Day Covers, Commissioned by the Royal Commonwealth Society in Honour of the 25th Anniversary of the Accession of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II." Each page in the scrapbook contains an envelope with an official first day of issue cancellation of a stamp applied by the the designated Post Office of the country of issue. Fifty-two countries are represented, beginning with Ascension Island and ending with...
Dates: 1977

Ephemera Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. 1.02
Scope and Contents

The Ephemera Collection contains material primarily acquired for teaching. It includes material in various formats, most of which have been previously published. The collection is currently being processed and new items will be added on an ongoing basis. For this reason, the indicated date range is approximate at this point.

Dates: 1800-2014

International First Day Covers Honoring America's Bicentennial

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 1985.04
Scope and Contents

International First Day Covers Honoring America's Bicentennial produced by the Westport Collectors Society and belonging to Walter W. Kale.

Dates: 1976

German postal covers collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 00287
Scope and Contents

115 envelopes, postcards, and letters from Germany with cancelled postage stamps. The chronology of the cancelled postage illustrates the hyperinflation Germany experienced, especially immediately following World War I.

Dates: 1893-1930; Majority of material found within 1920-1923

August R. Offer, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01258
Scope and Contents

Papers, 1945-1946 of Sergeant August R. Offer Jr., consisting of letters, photographs, Chinese currency, Chinese stamps and a military pass for the City for Shanghai. Letters are addressed to Offer while stationed in Shanghai after the end of the WW II and also to the U.S after his return in December 1945. folder link on the right.

Dates: 1945-1946