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| | United States Postage stamps. History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | The dimensions of the postage due stamps were lessened when the Treasury Department assumed the manufacture of stamps in 1894, and the color was deepened to a deep claret, with smaller white numerals than had been used up to that time. |
 | | The two elliptical lines enclosing the numerals, and between which the words "Postage due", the letters "U.S.", and the denomination were written in words, entirely disappeared on the lower half of the new stamp. |
 | | The new stamp is the same shape, size and design as the series of postage due stamps, issue of 1894, except that the white numeral "1/2" appears in the center of the stamp and the words "Half cent" appear in the panel at the bottom. |
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