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Virginia Dare Commemorative

Name: Virginia Dare Commemorative
Brand: United States

United States · 1937 · 5¢

The stamp features a portrait of Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the Americas, against a simple background.

Issued in 1937, this stamp commemorates the 350th anniversary of Virginia Dare's birth in the Roanoke Colony, a significant event in early American colonial history.

Printing Method

Engraved

Themes

commemorative history people colonial-history

Catalog Numbers

scott796

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