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Title	Type	Subject	Creator	Date	Place	Rights
Blue Hill Bay Cruise Trophy Northeast Harbor Fleet	Object, Prize, Trophy	Events Vessels, Boat, Sailboat		1925	Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor	Copyright Not Evaluated	Blue Hill Bay Cruise Trophy Northeast Harbor Fleet Identifier: nehflt-7 Type: Object, Prize, Trophy Subject: Events Vessels, Boat, Sailboat Date: 1925 Place: Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor Description: Electroplated two-handled silver cup with gilt interior, on varnished wooden base. Inscription reads as follows. __________ Blue Hill Bay Cruise 1925 Northeast Harbor Fleet B Class WON BY "ACE" on the back side inscriptions record later winners : 1976 - Deux Belles - John R. Robinson 1978 - Deux Belles - John R. Robinson 1980 - Watermelon - Dr. Henry Stebbins 1984 - Octet - S. Whitney Dickey 1987 - Oh Promise Me - Burnham Litchfield 1995 - Rarefish - Mark Cluett 1996 - Larkspur - Bruce Smart 1997 - Elizabeth - Wallace C. Tobin 1998 - Elizabeth - Wallace C. Tobin 1999 - Larkspur - Bruce Smart 2000 - Crackerjack - Alan Krulisch 2001 - Monarch - Roger Howell 2002 - Crackerjack - Alan Krulisch 2003 - Ariana - Jeffrey C. Becton This trophy has historically been called The Ace Cup [show more]
United States Stamp - Pilgrim Tercentenary Stamp - Landing of the Pilgrims - 1620-1920 - Issued December 21, 1920 Southwest Harbor Public Library	Object, Stamp, Postage Stamp	Events Vessels, Boat	Huston - Clair Aubrey Huston (1857-1938) Schofield - Louis Sartain Schofield (1868-1938) Smillie - George Frederick Cumming Smillie (1854-1924) Weeks - Edward Mitchell Weeks (1866-1959)	1920	New England	Copyright Not Evaluated	United States Stamp - Pilgrim Tercentenary Stamp - Landing of the Pilgrims - 1620-1920 - Issued December 21, 1920 Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-12562 Type: Object, Stamp, Postage Stamp Subject: Events Vessels, Boat Creator: Huston - Clair Aubrey Huston (1857-1938) Schofield - Louis Sartain Schofield (1868-1938) Smillie - George Frederick Cumming Smillie (1854-1924) Weeks - Edward Mitchell Weeks (1866-1959) Publisher: United States Postal Service Date: 1920 Place: New England Description: Engraved postage stamp Vessel: Pilgrim Shallop - Shallop Title: Pilgrim Tercentenary 1620-1920 – Landing of the Pilgrims Scott Cat. Number: 549 Subject: Pilgrim Landing 1620 Media: Flat plate engraving Designer: Huston - Clair Aubrey Huston (1857-1938) Design Inspiration - art: White – Edwin White (1817-1877) Design Inspiration – engraving: Burt – Charles Kennedy Burt (1823-1892) Vignette Engraver: Smillie – George Frederick Cumming Smillie (1854-1924) Letter Engraver: Edward Mitchell Weeks (1866-1959) Frame Engraver: Louis Sartain Schofield (1868-1938) Printer: United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing Color: Carmine Rose Size: 1” x 1.25” Country: United States Postage Value: 2 cents Issue Series: 2nd in the Pilgrim Tercentennial Series. Issue Origin: The Pilgrim Tercentennial was a national celebration from December 1920 to the summer of 1921. Issue Date: December 21, 1920 Issue Location: Plymouth, Massachusetts Issue Size: 196,037,327 See Also: "The Engraver’s Line: An Encyclopedia of Paper Money & Postage Stamp Art" by Gene Hessler, BNR Press, Port Clinton, Ohio, 1993. Page 4 and 5 explain the production steps taken to turn original art into an engraved postage stamp. Worth reading as the engraver works from the beginning on a plate of about 3.5” x 4,” engraving a stamp at its finished size. Engraving is used for very few stamps today and, when one reads about the process, one can understand why. The author even provides particular engraver’s recipes for the acid they used, including that of James Smillie, the famous landscape engraver. Smillie - James Smillie (1807-1885) [show more]

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