First U.S. presidential stamp

[David Lockmiller]

Modern stamp collectors view the first U.S. presidential stamp to be one featuring Abraham Lincoln that was released in 1866, a year after his assassination.

But Fred Baumann of The American Philatelist writes that the stamp, the first 15-center and chiefly used to send letters to France, has no inscription or dates marking it as commemorative. Well-preserved examples now sell for upward of $1,000.