United States, 1898 (8 cents, wagon train)
Mounted soldiers escorting a line of wagons.
Illustration of a historical stamp for learning, shown at screen size. Not valid for postage.
How to read it
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA runs along the top: the full country name.
- 1UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- 2POSTAGE EIGHT CENTS
- Inscription
- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA · TROOPS GUARDING TRAIN · POSTAGE EIGHT CENTS
- Meaning
- The full country name across the top; the caption names the scene and the bottom line gives the value in words.
- Issued by
- United States
- Today
- the United States Flag of United States
- Year
- 1898. Trans-Mississippi Exposition issue, Omaha, 1898.
- Made by
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing (government printing and engraving agency)
One fact
The eight-cent value shows soldiers on horseback guarding a wagon train in the West.
Source and public-domain rule
United States, published before 1931. Published in the United States in 1898, before 1931. Works published in the United States in 1930 or earlier are out of copyright there (the longest term, 95 years from publication, ended on 1 January 2026 for 1930 works), and stamps made by the federal government itself are not protected at all. Under the EU comparison of terms a work from outside the EU is protected no longer than in its country of origin. Legal sources: Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain, 17 U.S.C. § 105.
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