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Recent Significant Acquisitions





Since the Museum’s 1993 opening, some fascinating material has been acquired through generous donations and advantageous purchases. The most significant of these are reported to the Secretary of the Institution for inclusion in the yearly Annals.

The images and descriptions of these acquisitions, 1995 to present, are found below.






Royal Mail Ship (RMS) 'Titanic' Sea Post Clerk Oscar S. Woody's Set of Keys


2008
The Harry L. Jefferys Stamp Collection


Royal Mail Ship (RMS) 'Titanic' Sea Post Clerk Oscar S. Woody's Set of Keys


2007
Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Titanic Sea Post Clerk Oscar S. Woody's Set of Keys


Jeanette C. Rudy Duck Stamp Rarities Collection


2006
Jeanette C. Rudy Duck Stamp Collection


John Lennon's Stamp Album


2005
John Lennon's Stamp Album


Pierre-Noel's United Nations stamp design


2004
Pierre-Noel Accession
Postal Advertisements


Grey metal table and its upper 6-shelf unit with sections for sorting the mail of WTC residents


2003
Steel Die of Scott 11-E2
Sardinian 10-cent Bisect Cover


Grey metal table and its upper 6-shelf unit with sections for sorting the mail of WTC residents


2002
9-11-2001: Church Street Postal Station, World Trade Center
Wells Fargo "Virginia City Pony" Express Cover


1979-80 design, a pair of green-winged Teals on water


2001
Sixty Federal Duck Stamps
Cohen Collection of 1920 Saar Stamps


Medallion picturing Christopher Columbus and panoramic view of the Building with water and boats in foreground


2000
1893 Columbian Exposition Postal Cards
1883 Mailing Cylinder for Medicines


Face of the cover with the circular town cancel for Piraeus


1999
First Adhesive Postage Stamp
Boutwell Presentation Album




Envelope with printing United States Postage Stamps, issue, 1893. Columbians


1998
United States Plate Proof Singles
Postal Forgery
R.M.S. "Titanic" Objects




Handwritten letter on elaborately decorated letterhead; Hall&tild;s response is scrawled perpendicular over two-thirds of the letter


1997
1847 Stamp Correspondence




Exterior of folded deed showing the strip of revenue stamps


1996
New Hampshire Deed
Ryukyu Islands Collection




Partially destroyed envelope with a strip of 3 stamps on its face


1995
Hawaiian Rarities













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