Single unused American twenty cent postage stamp commemorating the physician, Dr. Virginia Apgar; portrait image in burgundy ink; includes name, title, date of birth and date of death and stamp valuation, perforated edges.
Single unused American twenty cent postage stamp commemorating the physician, Dr. Virginia Apgar; portrait image in burgundy ink; includes name, title, date of birth and date of death and stamp valuation, perforated edges.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Belonged to the donor, Dr. Jacalyn Duffin, MD, PhD, a hematologist and historian who held the Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine at Queen's University from1988 to 2017.
Dr. Virginia Apgar aspired to be a surgeon, then moved into the then relatively new field of anesthesiology, conducting research on the effects of obstetric anesthesia on newborn babies.
The first postal stamp website shows that it was published in the U.S.A in 1994. The second website shows that it was made in Dallas, Texas, and that it was printed by The United States Postal Service.