UNITED STATES POST OFFICE on 1-2 January 1893 issued a yellow-green coloured $3 postage stamp entitled "Columbus Describing Third Voyage" to the Spanish Court. It was the first-ever $3 U.S. stamp and was part of a commemorative series celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's voyage.
The design picture of Columbus discussing his third voyage to the New World with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in 1500 was engraved by D.S. Ronaldson.
The designs for the overall series was based on vignette pictures of an engraving by Alfred Jones, Charles Skinner, and Robert Savage, based on a painting by Francisco Jover y Casanova.
The Columbian stamps were created to promote the World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago, Illinois from 1 May to 30 October 1893. The exposition was a world’s fair celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World.
In 1893, only 27,650 were printed by American Bank Note Company, using an Engraving print method.
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