The Washington Post, November 17th, 1995
SOME OF THE "Missionaries" are coming to Washington. For years the National Postal Museum has coveted the rare Hawaiian stamps known as missionaries. Printed on thin tissue paper, they were the first stamps used on mail from the islands. They got their name from the fact that most of the early letter writers were the Christian missionaries who settled there in the mid-19th century. One night last week, while the museum was hosting a party to show off the designs of 1996's postage stamps, it finally got some of the Hawaiian stamps for its collection. Bidding at a New York auction, the museum se...
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