{"id":328,"date":"2017-01-11T16:14:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/?p=328"},"modified":"2017-01-11T19:40:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T19:40:03","slug":"worlds-columbian-exposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/2017\/01\/11\/worlds-columbian-exposition\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Columbian Exposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Chicago1893.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-303 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Chicago1893-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"chicago1893\" width=\"411\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Chicago1893-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Chicago1893-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Chicago1893-1024x667.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Chicago1893.jpg 1745w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/a>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition\" target=\"_blank\">World&#8217;s Columbian Exposition<\/a><\/span> was held in Chicago in 1893. Thousands of souvenirs were produced to sell to visitors. These included many different stamp boxes and cases. The website of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/stamps.org\/Home\" target=\"_blank\">American Philatelic Society<\/a><\/span><\/span> carries an excellent article about these items which may be downloaded from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/stamps.org\/userfiles\/file\/AP\/feature\/Feature_10_14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/span><\/span>. The many fine illustrations include two <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Mauchline-Ware.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Mauchline Ware<\/a><\/span><\/span> stamp boxes. However, it does not include the one we illustrate above. It just shows: there&#8217;s always more to be discovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World&#8217;s Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago in 1893. Thousands of souvenirs were produced to sell to visitors. These included many different stamp boxes and cases. The website of the American Philatelic Society carries an excellent article about these items which may be downloaded from here. The many fine illustrations include two Mauchline Ware &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/2017\/01\/11\/worlds-columbian-exposition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World&#8217;s Columbian Exposition<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}