USA - 1893: An 6 cents purple postage stamp depicting scene Columbus Welcomed at Barcelona, Columbian Issue. The World Columbian Exposition of 1893 commemorated the 400th anniversary of the landing of Christopher Columbus in the Americas. The stamps were interesting and attractive, designed to appeal to not only postage stamps collectors but to historians, artists and of course the general public who bought them in record numbers because of the fanfare of the Columbian Exposition of the World's Fair of 1892 in Chicago, Illinois

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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

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Size: 4800px × 3400px
Location: United States of America
Photo credit: © World of Stamp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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