Sheet of James Brown “Black & Brown” Stamps

Item #5065

California: ca. 1969. 6 x 4 in. Twenty-five stamps on paper. Stamps very good, paper on verso yellowed with age.

Art Powell, football player for the New York Titans, founded The Black and Brown Trading Stamp Corporation in 1969. The Corporation issued stamps in homage to prominent black people. Based in Oakland, California, the company was largely funded by James Brown, who was featured in the first run of stamps.

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