Catalogue information

LastDodo number
280511
Area
Stamps
Title
Carl Schurz memorial service
Face value
20
Country / area
Year
1952
Month
09
Day
17
Issue group
Order Number in Issue
Basic colour
Usage
Type
Geographical theme
Item subject
Porträt vor Weltkugel
Michel number
155
Yvert number
41
Scott number
691
Stanley Gibbons number
1079
Designer/Engraver
Watermark
Luminescence
Printing technique
Paper
Gum
Print run
5.000.000
Dimensions / diameter
28 x 33 mm
Details

Carl Schurz (1829-1906) was a politician and revolutionary in the states of the German Confederation and during the Baden Revolution of 1848/1849. After emigrating to the USA he worked as a "Forty-Eighter" US American general, historian and statesman. He was the first native German to become a member of the United States Senate.

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