Lincoln Stamps Bring Neary $2 Million at a New York Auction
Seven score and four years ago, as Lincoln lay dying in a boarding house across the street from Ford’s Theater, his myth was already being born. A good part of that myth is owed to Lincoln’s appearance on postage stamps. The first one, a black 15-cent stamp, was issued in 1866, a year after his death.
In their exquisite, miniature engravings, these early stamps began the reincarnation of Lincoln: the little images of his almost saintly visage, gazing serenely past the viewer in three-quarter profile, became part of our public consciousness. Borne on letters overseas, stamps also carried the consciousness of Lincoln around the world.
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