Show the tits birst I 1 lot postage Iott age stamp stamps the first postage stamps issued by the government were ere the denominations of five and ten cents these stamps stamp sare are now obsolete and they mould would not be recognized by the post offices the five cent stamp contained a portrait of franklin made after a painting by john U B longacre acre in which the first postmaster general la is pre dented wearing a white neckerchief and a coat with a fur collar the color of the stump stamp Is A light brown and there is A it bor der decrof of fine liim fini arati nam antl HM fm l tramp me be tah cent ump conta ineil a portrait of WiL shing tou ovule ni ide from stew arts painting iti its color was tt na block black and it had in the upper bornem the letter U 1 S these two tam pa ware were all nil that were used until lacil IS il bettar tage was reduced to tire ali of stamps came in ili all of these stampa but ther they included eleven dim rent tlona there wasa was a one cent a three cent stam a fl there were also ako ten twelve twenty our I 1 thirty and ninety cent stamps awl baull to these two carrier 4 enax ms id which cost one cent abe these e stamps all DU bore the buta of american men courier cou riar jou runt |