FREE: Sheet of 20 Silver Coffeepot Three Cent Stamps

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Sheet of 20 New Unused Stamps for them odd postage amounts!

The 3-cent definitive -- to be dedicated during the MILCOPEX Stamp Show in Milwaukee -- shows an artist's watercolor painting of the pear-shaped "Silver Coffeepot" with a carved wood handle that was made about 1786 by Philadelphia silversmith brothers Joseph Richardson Jr. (1752-1831) and Nathaniel Richardson (1754-1827).Tea, coffee and chocolate were very popular during the late 1600s and 1700s, the USPS noted, driving the demand for silver containers. Larger cities touted their renowned silversmiths, who custom-made utensils that were attractive, useful and reflected their owners' affluence and social positions.

The coffeepot on the stamp, the USPS said, appears to have been presented to Margaret Rawle when she married Isaac Wharton in 1786. Both newlyweds came from eminent Philadelphia families.
Her initials are engraved on the body of the coffeepot but do not appear in the painting on the stamp. The Philadelphia Museum of Art acquired the coffeepot in 1986.
The Richardsons, from a long line of silversmiths, worked as partners from 1777 to 1790.

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