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一个首日封

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2018-7-20

最近整理旧邮票，发现了一个首日封：

首日封信封上是蒋介石的头像。上面的邮票，是美国邮政局1942年7月7日抗战五周年发行的林肯/孙中山邮票：

票面5分，背景是中国地图，中间是中华民国国徽，国徽内是1937年7月7日-1942年7月7日的英文和抗战建国的中文，左面是林肯名言民有、民治、民享，右边是孙中山的三民主义民族、民生、民权。那是历史上中美两国合作与交往最美好的时期。

关于这一枚邮票，最早的设计是这样的：

1942 5¢ China Resistance

Issue Date: July 7, 1942
City: Denver, CO
Quantity: 21,272,800
Printed By: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Rotary Press
Perforations: 11 X 10½
Color: Bright Blue

This stamp was issued to commemorate the fifth anniversary of China’s resistance against the Japanese Empire in the early days of World War II. The 5¢ denomination would have paid for a first-class letter to China.

The stamp pictures Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Sun is considered the father of the Republic of China and was the country’s first president. His Three Principles (nationalism, democracy, and people’s livelihood) were inspired by the last portion of Lincoln’s Gettysburg address, “Of the people, by the people, for the people.” Both inscriptions are written under the respective statesman, Sun Yat-sen’s in Chinese characters.

A map of China and the Republic’s national symbol, a sun, are also pictured on the stamp. In addition, the date of the beginning of the war and the Chinese motto “Fight the War and Build the Country” are inscribed in the sun.

The stamp was issued in Denver, Colorado, because Sun Yat-sen was visiting that city in 1911, when he received word China was free from the Qing Empire. He immediately returned to China to become the president.

另外当时这样的首日封，应该还有至少另外几种样式：