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Edgar Allan Poe The Raven 1st Day Issue Postal Cover 5 Stamps
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EDGAR ALLAN POE The Raven 1st Day Issue Postal Cover 5 Stamps.....
On January 16, 2009, the USPS issued a stamp to honor Edgar Allan Poe on the 200th Anniversary of his birth (January 19, 1809.) Shown here is a genuine First Day Cover, an envelope with the full color stamp, featuring a portrait of Poe, cancelled from the city of issue (Richmond, VA - where he's buried) on the first day of issue captioned above. The addition of four older stamps, cancelled along with the new stamp on its 'birthday' elevate this cover to a Combo.
The 3-cents magenta stamp again honors Poe and was issued in 1949. The
other three stamps honor three more American poets and authors - Henry Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Walt Whitman - and were issued in 1940.
The cachet
(artwork on the envelope) shows Poe against a background of his most
famous poem, The Raven...the title, its opening lines, and a silhouette
of a raven on a barren tree. The picture is printed on silk with an
embossed gold border.
Double matted in black and white, this piece is sized to fit a standard 8x10 frame. ***Certificate of Authenticity Included***
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