San Marino issued in 1973 two stamps to commemorate the city of New York 300th anniversary. The 200L stamps shows the town in 1673 while the other stamp shows the town skyline in 1973.
Only the 200L stamp depict watercraft, two sailing ships from that timeframe, of which I have not any information, the ship on the right it looks that she has crashed in an island in the Hudson River.
The stamp is designed after an old print from the book from Frank C. Bowen, The Sea: It's History and Romance to 1697, vol. I (London: B.F. Stevens & Brown, 1924-1926) 269. Original in Arnoldus Montanus, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, of Beschrijving van America (Amsterdam: 1671). The print depict there is from a more early date when the town was known as New Amsterdam and under control of the Dutch West India Company.
The British captured New Amsterdam in 1664 from the Dutch and renamed it in New York, it looks that the print was made before 1664.
In July/August 1673 the Dutch recaptured New York and was renamed in New Orange. See:
https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/ ... ack_NN.pdf
After the war between the Netherlands and Great Britain ended in the Treaty of Westminster in November 1674 New Orange was handed back to British control and renamed again in New York.
Source: http://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/expl ... d-1673.php
And various web-sites.
San Marino 1973 200L sg?, scott 798.