FREE: 1893 Landing of Columbus

The listing, 1893 Landing of Columbus has ended.

GET IT NOW (GIN) for 9,500 credits before someone else does!

Used, light cancel mark.

Interesting fact: Issued on New Years Day January 1, 1893

Printed by: American Bank Note Company

Another interesting fact: An Instant Hit with Collectors, at the time they were issued, the Columbian stamps were controversial. Collectors eagerly awaited the series, forming long lines to purchase the stamps. Yet many were frustrated by the price of owning the complete series, which equaled more than $2,030 in today’s unskilled labor wages. Some postal clerks refused to sell Columbian stamps because demand far exceeded supply.

This stamp shows Columbus coming ashore at Guanahani (San Salvador) in the West Indies. He claimed the land in the name of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. And so certain was Columbus that he was in India, he called the natives “Indians.
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