USA - 1898 June 17: An 50 cents sage-green postage stamp depicting scene Western Mining Prospector, Trans-Mississippi Exposition held in Omaha, Nebraska. Trans-Mississippi Exposition Issue was only the second commemorative issue offered by the Post Office and closely followed the pattern of its predecessor, the Columbian Exposition series of 1893: both sets appeared in conjunction with important international world's fairs; both offered a wide range of stamp denominations; both adopted the double-width stamp format to accommodate pictorial tableaux
US postage stamp of the last decade of the 19th century. This postage stamp, as a physical objects, is part of a private collection owned by the author of the image
Size: 4900px × 3400px
Location: United States of America
Photo credit: © World of Stamp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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