{"id":860,"date":"2016-02-05T13:58:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T18:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/?page_id=860"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:40:12","slug":"knight","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/collections\/knight\/","title":{"rendered":"Webster Knight Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The philatelic collections housed in the John Hay Library began in 1933 when Webster Knight (class of&nbsp;1876) bequeathed&nbsp;his personal collection of United States postage stamps to Brown University Library. The collection contains every U.S. stamp issued from&nbsp;1847&nbsp;to&nbsp;the present day, kept in blocks of four or more.&nbsp;Pre-dating the&nbsp; first United States Post Office issues of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_the_United_States#First_national_postage_stamps\">5\u00a2&nbsp;Ben Franklin stamp<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_the_United_States#First_national_postage_stamps\">10\u00a2 George Washington stamp<\/a>, the&nbsp;Knight collection&nbsp;includes locally-issued&nbsp;Providence <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gallery_of_U.S._Postmasters%27_Provisional_Stamps,_1845%E2%80%9347\">Provisional stamps<\/a> of 1846-1847. In 1935, a committee comprised of&nbsp;three members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nefed.org\/RIPS\/index.html\">Rhode Island Philatelic Society <\/a>was appointed to manage&nbsp;the collection. This relationship continues today.&nbsp;The Knight Collection is endowed, and the funds enable the Library to acquire every new U.S. stamp issued each year as well as a selection of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Errors,_freaks,_and_oddities\">printing errors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The philatelic collections housed in the John Hay Library began in 1933 when Webster Knight (class of&nbsp;1876) bequeathed&nbsp;his personal collection of United States postage stamps to Brown University Library. The collection contains every U.S. stamp issued from&nbsp;1847&nbsp;to&nbsp;the present day, kept in blocks of four or more.&nbsp;Pre-dating the&nbsp; first United States Post Office issues of the <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/collections\/knight\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Webster Knight Collection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":858,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-860","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/860\/revisions\/1203"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}