USA - 1926 May 29: An 5 cents grey-lilac postage stamp depicting Statue of John Ericsson, builder of the “Monitor”. Ericsson Memorial Issue. Ericsson collaborated on the design of the first armoured ironclad warship equipped with a rotating gun turret, USS Monitor, which dramatically saved the (Union Navy) naval blockading squadron from destruction by an ironclad Confederate States naval vessel, CSS Virginia, at the famous Battle of Hampton Roads at the southern mouth of Chesapeake Bay (with the James River) in March 1862, during the American Civil War
US postage stamp of the first half of the 20th century. This postage stamp, as a physical objects, is part of a private collection owned by the author of the image
Size: 3400px × 5200px
Location: United States of America
Photo credit: © World of Stamp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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