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HISTORY OF THE Postage Stamps — OF THE — UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
BY JOHN K. TIFFANY,
Author of THE PHILATELICAL LIBRARY, President of the American Philatelic Association and of the St. Louis Philatelic Society. Honorary Member of the Philatelic Society of London. Corresponding Member of the Societe Francaise de Timbrologie, the Societies of Dresden, Wurtemburg, Etc.
1887: C. H. MEKEEL, PHILATELIC PUBLISHER, ST. LOUIS, MO.
Copyrighted by J. K. Tiffany. 1886. All Rights Reserved.