2c Alaska-Yukon, Model Essay (370-E2). 75 x 89mm card with black-and-white ink wash frame (as on 1909 2c Lincoln) with William Seward engraved portrait inset (this is a die proof of a Snuff Stamp vignette), red pen "#2" in circle at top left, the change from the seal to Seward was made after adverse reaction from the Exhibition's backers to a stamp that would emphasize the more frigid aspects of Northern life, in one protesting telegram to Secretary of the Interior Ballinger they state "One of the objects of the fair is to show that Alaska can raise something else besides icebergs"

VERY FINE. ANOTHER UNIQUE ALASKA-YUKON ESSAY.

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