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The listing, 1901 10¢ Fast Ocean Navigation - US Scott # 299 has ended.

$35 Retail value even used!!!

U.S. #299
1901 10¢ Pan-American Commemorative

Issue Date: May 1, 1901
Quantity issued: 5,043,700
Printed by: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Method: Flat plate
Watermark: Double line
Perforation: 12
Color: Yellow brown and black

Reflecting the “speed” theme that’s common to all Pan-American stamp designs, the 10¢ Fast Ocean Navigation commemorative pictures a passenger liner slicing through ocean waves. The design is based on the St. Paul, a 553-foot American Liner steamship launched in 1895.

When the Spanish-American War began three years later, the St. Paul was the first commercial ship to be commissioned. The war was still fresh in the minds of many Americans in the early 1900s, and the St. Paul’s fame certainly influenced the choice of ships to feature in the Pan-American series.

The St. Paul was decommissioned at the end of the 113-day naval war and returned to its owner. Almost 20 years later, the steel ship was commissioned again during World War I and made 12 voyages between New York and England.
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