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Stamp Collector's Album
- Creator:
- unknown
- Location:
- Unknown place made
- Origin Date:
- 1965-1966
- Materials:
- paper
- Measurements:
- overall: 11 in x 10 1/2 in x 1 5/8 in
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.082.0779
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Three-dimensional Objects
Description
One of five stamp collector's albums holding cardboard stock pages printed on one side with a light green grid and bound in a darker green leather cover with gilt trim and gilt edges on pages. Transparent sheets are interleaved with the printed pages. Most leaves have a typed title at the top giving the year and the type of stamp pasted on. Some pages have explanatory text from articles in various publications. In general the leaves have attached Lincoln stamps, stamp blocks, first day covers, and/or souvenir sheets from various foreign countries with dates ranging from the 1930s through 1965. Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
