American Design Series 2002 to 2011
Jan 25, 2015 12:23:29 GMT -5
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Post by darkormex on Jan 25, 2015 12:23:29 GMT -5
Several years ago I had started to put together separate pages for all the modern definitive series....just because I like the stamps and all the varieties. clif's recent posts spurred me to go back and look at doing this again.
In 2002 a series of low denomination definitive stamps started to be issued by the US Postal Service. In essence the stamps are meant as make-up rate stamps for postage rate transitions or a bit like "small change" to come up with the correct rate on a letter or package that totals a non-standard rate.
They are very common on mail clippings I have accumulated but I tend to set them aside and ignore them simply because there are so many to remove from paper. Last night, however, I became intrigued...wondering if I had all of the different catalog varieties of these stamps. Sure enough, I found I had them all.
I set out to make a page displaying all of them as below with Scott Catalog numbers (written underneath each stamp). Moving left to right and top to bottom:
Row 1, 1c Tiffany Lamp: 3749, 3749A, 3758, 3758A
Row 2, 2c Navajo Jewelry: 3750, 3751, 3752, 3753, 3758B
Row 3, 3c Silver Coffeepot: 3754, 3759
Row 4, 4c Chippendale Chair: 3755, 3761
Row 5, 5c American Toleware: 3756, 3756A, 3612
Row 6, 10c American Clock: 3757, 3762, 3763
