National Postal Museum
1c ordinary postal card woodcut
Abraham Lincoln, American, 1809 - 1865 · c. 1911
Hand engraved in negative; vignette of Abraham Lincoln with 1-cent frame. The woodcut, number 538, 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 UX23.
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