Alfred Jones was an engraver born in 1819 in

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and died in 1900 in

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. He also made portrait and landscape paintings. In the 1890s he was employed at the

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in New York. He was the artist and engraver of the 1890 Postage stamp that honored

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.Smithsonian National Postal Museum
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