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National Postal Museum

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The National Postal Museum celebrates the beauty and lore of stamps, showcasing rare stamps and covers from the Museum's renowned collection. A stamp is much more than the physical evidence that postage has been paid.

 


National Postal Museum - a museum of the Smithsonian Institution, located in the old Washington City Post Office, housing the national postage stamp collection.
Never hinged - a stamp with gum undisturbed by the presence of a hinge.

The National Postal Museum
It's really worth the trip to Washington DC. You'll be amazed at the knowledge you can gain at the NPM about the United States' postal progress through the years.

The National Postal Museum in Washington, DC has among its many excellent exhibits a fascinating one titled "The Evolution of the American Envelope", including models of six early envelope-making machines.
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Visit the National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C.
Visit the American Philatelic Society headquarters in Bellefonte, PA.
Present your research to stamp clubs and groups in your home area.

The Post Office's National Postal Museum overprinted a small number of the
12p card for their Exhibition of Elizabethan Sports Stamps, and sold these
cards with the 12p Sports stamp affixed to the reverse.
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National Postal Museum: part of the Smithsonian Institutions, First Street and Massachusetts Ave., N.E., Washington, D. C.
National release: term for USPS new issue available throughout nation.
National Return-Letter Ass'n.

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In the United States, the National Postal Museum is part of the Smithsonian Institution. It is located in Washington, D.C. The Spellman Museum of Stamps and Postal History is located in Weston, Mass.

The image attached to this record shows inverts from that single sheet, which were reunited during an exhibit at the National Postal Museum in the summer of 1996.

See also: Stamp, Philatelic, Cover, Stamp Collecting, Postal history

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