Nicholas Frederick Seebeck (1857 Germany

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 - June 23, 1899) was a stamp dealer

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 and printer

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, best known for his stamp-printing contracts with several Latin America

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n countries in the 1890s.
Seebeck emigrated to the United States

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 at the age of 9. He soon established himself as a stamp dealer and cataloguer

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 (as a sideline to owning a stationery and printing shop) in New York City

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, and published the Descriptive Price Catalogue of All Known Postage Stamps of the United States and Foreign Countries in 1876.