License, verbatimUS-PD
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1845 postmaster's provisional 5¢ black on white ; Largest block known ; 1845 5¢ New York signed "R.H.M." ; 1845 5¢ New York black on blue complete reprint sheet of 9, impressed from new plate made from original die.. 1845 (from title). The New York Public Library.