In 1914, American Pulliam William Ellis promotes a monumental beacon in first city of the New World. In 1923, this concept was accepted during the Fifth International Conference in Chile. In 1931, out of 455 participants from 48 countries, Scottish architect Joseph Lea Gleave won the competition in Brazil to design the beacon. Foundations were dug in Dominican Republic in 1948, but construction was halted by political instability. Construction resumed in 1986, and it was inaugurated in time for celebration of the quincentennial discovery of the Americas in 1992.
The stamps feature Columbus’s flagship, the Santa Maria, (regular mail), or Christopher Columbus (1451–1506, airmail) and a design for the proposed Columbus Memorial Lighthouse near Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic.
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