Rare Vintage 1908 Postcard 1 Cent Ben Franklin Stamp, Blue Green, Benjamin Franklin Stamp shops Marked, Mohawk Golf Club Schenectady NY

1908 Post Card with a Green/Blue Benjamin Franklin 1 Cent Stamp

Picture on the front of the Post Card is of Mohawk Golf Club House, Schenectady, NY
Post Card printed in Germany
Post Card Published by the Albany News Company, Albany NY No. B-13386 / Leipzig-Berlin
Condition As seen in the pictures
U.S. #300
Series of 1902-03 1¢ Franklin
Issue Date: February 3, 1903



Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706, in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Franklin was the son of a soap and candle maker. As a youth, he learned shops these trades but found them unsatisfactory. So he became an apprentice to his brother James, a printer, at the age of 12. It was in this apprenticeship that Franklin started what he considered his primary, lifelong occupation – printing.


During this time Franklin also wrote many articles that were submitted and published under the pseudonym “Silence Dogood.” These writings demonstrated his unique wit, humor, and insight. However, when his brother discovered that Benjamin was the author of the articles, he refused to publish them. The two brothers quarreled frequently, and at the age of 17, Franklin ran away and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Franklin's arrival in Philadelphia has become a classic part of American folklore. The young man arrived in the city on a Sunday morning, tired and hungry. At a bakery, he asked for three pennies' worth of bread, and received three loaves. He then bravely walked up Market Street with a loaf under each arm while eating the third. As he passed the door of the Read family, his future wife, Deborah Read, watched him walk by, and thought he made “a most awkward and ridiculous appearance.”

“The first citizen of Philadelphia.” Franklin's many contributions to the city of Philadelphia include: founding the first subscription library in the American colonies; organizing the city's fire department; law enforcement reform; leading efforts to pave, clean, and light public streets; raising money to build a city hospital, the Pennsylvania Hospital; and founding the academy that became the University of Pennsylvania. Franklin was also an important inventor and scientist. He discovered lightning was electricity, and created such terms as armature, condenser, and battery.