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The Genesis of Flight illustrates one of the most prestigious aeronautical history collections in existence, covering the history of man's dream of flight from antiquity to the advent of powered flight at the beginning of the 20th century. The items included are drawn from more than 20,000 objects that vividly reflect both humanity's vision and its fulfillment. Five-thousand-year-old seals carved from semiprecious stones and used to inscribe clay tablets record the earliest conception of flight. Among the collection's thousands of books are priceless volumes printed before 1501. Many, such as Robert Hooke's Philosophical Collections (1682), are serious, scientific studies of the possibility of flight. Others are about imaginary voyages into space and to other worlds, including Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1547), Cyrano de Bergerac's account of a voyage to the moon first published in 1650, and, of course, the 19th-century classics of Jules Verne. More than 2,000 prints, portraits, engravings, etchings, woodcuts, and lithographs comprise a unique and arresting pictorial history of aeronautics. Important letters written by pioneers of flight -- Montgolfier, Blanchard, Lunardi, Lilienthal, Count von Zeppelin, Santos-Dumont, Langley, and the Wright brothers -- are to be found among the collection's manuscript holdings. There are also rare commemorative medallions, sheet music, posters, dime novels, postcards and postage stamps, early flight manuals, catalogues of aircraft equipment, match boxes, and children's games and toys -- all recording, in one way or another, humanity's aspirations to fly. The collection was assembled by Richard Gimbel (1898-1970), who began collecting whileserving with the 8th U.S. Army Air Force in England during World War II, and continued after becoming curator of aeronautical literature at Yale University. The collection was donated to the United States Air Force Academy upon his death.

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Postage stamp design error - A postage stamp design error is a mistake made during the design phase of the postage stamp production process. Design errors most commonly occur as minor mistakes, such as a missing letter in the binomial name of an organism depicted on the stamp, but some have been major gaffes, such as a map appearing to lay claim to another country's territory, or the depiction of the wrong person on the stamp.

Postage stamp reprint - A reprint of a postage stamp occurs when the stamp-issuing authority makes additional printings of a stamp after its normal period of usage. A reprint may or may not be valid as postage.

Postage stamp reuse - In the earlier days of the postage stamp, postal officials worried much about the problem of postage stamp reuse, and invented a number of schemes to mark or deface the stamps.

Canadian postage stamp of Acadian Deportation 1755–2005 - The Canadian postage stamp of Acadian Deportation 1755–2005, issued for release on August 15, 2005, is a domestic 50 cent stamp marking the 250th anniversary of the Expulsion of the Acadians. Canada Post chose August 15 as the release date for the stamp, recognizing Acadian National Day.

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Postage Stamp Collecting - Postage Stamp Collecting The Official Blackbook Price Guide to Us Postage Stamps 2007 Efficiently organized according to the Scott numbering system, a uniquely reliable guide to U.S. postage stamps issued from 1847 to the present lists thousands of prices for stamps, mint sheets, first-day covers, postage stamp collecting and more postage stamp collecting and includes tips on trading stamps postage stamp collecting and more than two thousand photographs. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights ...

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Postage Stamp - Postage Stamp The Official Blackbook Price Guide to Us Postage Stamps 2007 Efficiently organized according to the Scott numbering system, a uniquely reliable guide to U.S. postage stamps issued from 1847 to the present lists thousands of prices for stamps, mint sheets, first-day covers, postage stamp and more postage stamp and includes tips on trading stamps postage stamp and more than two thousand photographs. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved. FOR BEST PRICE ...

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