Object Details
- Description
- This circular town-date handstamp is typical of a mid-19th century, steel-head postmarker. The solid steel die has a mortice in the center with a socket key and is marked Maryland Line, MD. The mortise only accomodates month and date type, typical of the 1860s and 1870s. The ornate set-screw head and the small-diameter dial are characteristic of pre-Civil War steel handstamps. Larger diameter devices during the mid-19th Century were ordinarily made of wood.
- c. 1860-1870
- Object number
- 1987.0905.35
- Type
- Mail Processing Equipment
- Medium
- wood; steel
- Dimensions
- Height x Width x Depth: 5 x 1 3/4 x 1 1/2 in. (12.7 x 4.45 x 3.81 cm)
- Place
- Maryland
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- On View
- Currently on exhibit at the National Postal Museum
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1877)
- Record ID
- npm_1987.0905.35
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8ecc417b1-f14d-4dfc-b8eb-901c15755778
