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Nathan Hale Patriotic Stamp Card and Prison Ship Martyrs Honor
The piece notes a 9-cent Nathan Hale Patriot postal card in the Patriots Postal Card series and reports the Flatbush Historical Society's push for a Prison Ship Martyrs stamp in 1978. It also surveys Antigua stamps from its Summer Carnival and Christmas Island issues, plus high-valued stamps per Stanley Gibbons.
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Nathan Hale
U.S. Postal Service
Paul Revere
John Hanson
Samuel Adams
Charles Thomson
John Witherspoon
Caesar Rodney
Boston
The
Flatbush Historical Society
Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee
East River
Wallabout Bay
Brooklyn
Irving Choban
Antigua
Christmas Island
Cook