The Regular Issues of 1922–1931 were a series of 27 U.S. postage stamps issued for general everyday use by the U.S. Post Office. Unlike the definitives...
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increasing the price of a stamp to 49 cents. Bulk mail, periodicals, and package service rates were also increased by 6 percent. A loss of US$5 billion during...
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of the United States US Regular Issues of 1922-1931 US space exploration history on US stamps American Credo postal Issues Washington-Franklin Issues...
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Prominent Americans series (redirect from Prominent Americans Issue)
Washington in the issues of 1902, 1922 and 1938; Susan B. Anthony in the Liberty series). This was also the first definitive issue to include a stamp...
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Washington–Franklin Issues US Regular Issues of 1922–1931 Armstrong, Martin A., Washington Franklins 1908–1921, (1979) "Third Bureau Issues (1908–1922)". Smithsonian...
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Inverted Jenny (category Postage stamps of the United States)
"aeroplane carrying mail"), one of the U.S. Parcel Post stamps of 1912–13. The Post Office finally decided to inaugurate regular service on May 15, 1918, flying...
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various scenes of the West and are presently valued much by collectors. This was only the second commemorative issue offered by the U.S. Post Office and...
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"Scott New Issues Update". Linn's Stamp News. 86 (4412). Sidney, Ohio: Amos Press, Inc.: 52–53 May 20, 2013. ISSN 0161-6234. "Scott New Issues Update"....
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They're a part of collecting history". Linns Stamp News. 2015-04-08. Retrieved 2015-12-18. Bigalke, Jay (April 2011). "Statue of Liberty on U.S. stamp is a...
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Presidential Issue, nicknamed the Prexies by collectors, is the series of definitive postage stamps issued in the United States in 1938, featuring all 29 U.S. presidents...
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Clair Aubrey Huston (category Postage stamps of the United States)
United States on U.S. postage stamps Washington–Franklin Issues US Regular Issues of 1922–1931 Charles R. Chickering (Artist and U.S. postage stamp designer...
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Hawaiian Missionaries (stamps) (category Postage stamps of the Hawaiian Kingdom)
to the US, the 5-cent value was for regular mail to the US, and the 13-cent value was for mail to the US East Coast, combining the 5 cents of Hawaiian...
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meeting, 10 Jul 1961" (PDF) (in French). "Postage stamp issues to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty, 1961". Polar Record. 16 (100):...
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Bicentennial stamps of 1932 are postage stamps issued by the United States government in 1932 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of U.S. President George...
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Comic Strip Classics (category Postage stamps of the United States)
Classics series of commemorative postage stamps was issued by the United States Postal Service on October 1, 1995, to honor the centennial of the newspaper...
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Alexandria "Blue Boy" Postmaster's Provisional (category Provisional stamps of the United States)
local—rather than regular and national—issue, there is room for disagreement over whether it fully merits placement in the elite category of one-of-a-kind stamps...
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White House entrance. First US Postage stamps Washington–Franklin Issues Washington–Franklins chart US Regular Issues of 1922–1931 Gilbert Stuart 1932 Washington...
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Raising the Flag at Ground Zero (category Aftermath of the September 11 attacks)
of The Record newspaper of Bergen County, New Jersey, taken on September 11, 2001. The picture shows three New York City firefighters raising the U.S...
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Great Americans series (category Postage stamps of the United States)
earlier definitive issues: for in the 1965–1978 Prominent Americans series, females had appeared on only two denominations, while 1902, 1922–1925, 1938 and...
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ABCorp (category Articles with multiple maintenance issues)
private printing of U.S. Postage stamps. Perhaps the most popular were the Columbian Issue, one cent to $5 issues commemorating the voyages of Christopher...
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Z Grill (category Postage stamps of the United States)
1-cent Franklin Z-Grill is generally cited as the rarest and most valuable of all US postage stamps, the 15-cent Lincoln Z-Grill is just as rare, also with...
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Federal Duck Stamp (category Philately of the United States)
Foundation. Their issues are referred to as "society stamps." These items technically are not duck stamps because the fee structure and disposition of funds are...
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commemorative issue of 1960. Next was the Project Mercury issue of 1962. As U.S. space exploration progressed a variety of other commemorative issues followed...
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stamps and postal system of the Confederate States of America carried the mail of the Confederacy for a brief period in U.S. history. Early in 1861 when...
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Overrun Countries series (category Postage stamps of the United States)
Service Guide to U.S. Stamps, 27th edition, 2000 (ISBN 0-06-095854-5), p. 128. THE OVERRUN COUNTRIES STAMPS OF 1943 AND 1944 Wartime Issues of Commemorative...
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Elvis Presley single (category Postage stamps of the United States)
first stamp from the Legends of American Music stamp series. The stamp's design was the subject of a postal vote conducted by US Postal Service between two...
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The Columbian Issue, also known as the Columbians, is a set of 16 postage stamps issued by the United States to commemorate the World's Columbian Exposition...
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were traveled by US Airmail Service planes, carrying over 22 million letters. Further regulation ensued quite rapidly, such as those issued by second assistant...
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re-issues are much less common than the regular issues – there are around 5,000 used 90 cent compared with about 40 re-issues. There are fewer than 500 used examples...
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Dag Hammarskjöld invert (category Postage stamps of the United States)
stamp error issued on 23 October 1962 by the United States Postal Service (then known as the Post Office Department) one year after the death of Dag Hammarskjöld...
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