Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land

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Vignettes of Americana issued for the new Lostage Rates 1975 PROCLAIM LIBERTY PROCLAIM LIBERTY USA 13c USA 13c OWN.PA NOV 25 1975 FIRST DAY SUE sTMILAD BYORDEKOF IRE 18101 "Proclaim Liberty throughout all the Land Inscribed on the Liberty Bell 1752 ficial First Day Cover THRO

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Fleetwood 13c LIBERTY BELL Coil Version The Liberty Bell, a long-revered symbol of America's State House (the building later renamed Independence fight for Independence during the Revolution, acquired Hall). Recast by Pass and Stow, Philadelphia founders, its name belatedly — some twenty-four years after it was who added 1/2 ounces of copper to each pound of the cast in the country from which America would seek its original metal to reduce its brittleness, it was found that independence and liberty. Originally called the Province this amount of copper hurt its tone. It was therefore again Bell, it was ordered cast at the firm of Thomas Lister of recast by Pass and Stow with a reduction in the copper, London by the Provincial Pennsylvania Assembly to and was hung in June, 1753, in the wooden steeple of what mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Commonwealth of is now Independence Hall. Used while the Continental Pennsylvania. Ordered in 1751, it was delivered in Congresses were in session, its tone rang out to defy Bri- August, 1752, at a cost of sixty pounds. It was first tish taxes, to proclaim the Boston Tea Party, and to an- cracked by a stroke of its clapper in September, 1752, nounce on July 4, 1776, the adoption by the Continental while being tested where it hung on a truss in the new Congress of the Declaration of Independence.