[Collection of American glass stamps on various glass museum letterhead envelopes].

Title: 
[Collection of American glass stamps on various glass museum letterhead envelopes].

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Publisher: 
[S.l.] : USPS, 1998.
Description: 
48 envelopes + 1 page of stamps : col. ill. ; 10 x 19 cm.
Format of Material: 
Ephemera
Subjects: 
Postage stamps United States.
Glass on postage stamps.
Postmarks New York (State) Corning.
Glassware United States Pictorial works.
Bib ID: 
63254
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Location: 
Secured Stacks - Postage Stamps
Call Number: 
Postage Stamp Collection B
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Notes: 
Issued June 29, 1999 in Corning, NY - Opening ceremony held at The Corning Museum of Glass.
4 different 33 cent stamps pictured : free-blown glass ; mold-blown glass ; pressed glass ; art glass.
Includes objects from The Corning Museum of Glass.
2nd day issues from National Bottle Museum Station, Ballston Spa, NY ; The Jones Museum of & Ceramics Station, Sebago, ME ; Sandwich, MA. June 30 1999.
Includes special cache envelope with 4 American glass stamps together with a colonial American craftsman stamp. Also incudes a deck cover with a full sheet of American glass stamps behind it and a First-day cancellation across the front.

Object/Material Note

Object/Material Note: 
Free-blown glass stamp includes CMoG objects: 55.4.134 -- 91.4.74 -- 86.4.196 -- 55.4.110.
Pressed glass stamp includes CMoG object: 68.4.544.
Art glass stamp includes CMoG objects: 62.4.61 -- 50.4.328 -- 74.4.177 -- 61.4.122.