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1c John C. Calhoun block of four
Thomas De La Rue & Co., Ltd.
CSA block of four 1-cent John C. Calhoun. Imperforate issue engraved in relief on steel, electrotyped, and flat bed printed by Thomas De La Rue & Co., Ltd., London. Delivered in half sheets of two hundred. F. Joubert engraved the portrait of Calhoun. The 1-cent value was never issued, and therefore no genuinely used copies exist.
- Date
- 1862
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper (thin white wove hard-surfaced paper); ink (shades from pale dull to deep orange); gum (transparent colorless)
- Department
- NPM
- Institution
- National Postal Museum
- Object number
- npm_2005.2004.1522