Lost Continental
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lost-continental-242-15124534
title:
Lost Continental
text:
The Lost Continental is a light-purple 24¢ United States postage stamp depicting General Winfield Scott, printed around 1873 on vertically ribbed paper by the Continental Banknote Company. It is the only known copy of this 24¢ Scott stamp—among the many surviving examples—that can be positively identified as a printing by the Continental firm, and not by the National Banknote Company, which had originally produced this 24¢ issue three years earlier. For more than a century, experts could not det
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United States postage stamp
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Continental
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date modified:
2022-09-05T23:26:17Z
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