National Postal Museum
1-cent, Ordinary Postal Card Woodcut
Government Printing Office · c. 1910
Hand engraved in negative; vignette of William McKinley without frame. This preliminary woodcut, number 535, was used for postal card printing by method of letterpress, or in philatelic terms, typography or relief printing. The Engraving Division at the Bureau of Engraving & Printing designed the woodcut for electrotyping plates. U. S. Scott UX21.
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