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  2. Postage stamp color - Wikipedia

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    Different denominations of stamps have been printed in different colors since the very beginning; as with their successors, postal clerks could distinguish the Penny Black and Two pence blue more quickly by color than by reading the value, and the practice generally continues today. In practice, the actual color of a stamp may vary, and while ...

  3. Postage stamps and postal history of the United States

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    These stamps were larger in size than normal definitive issues, with only 280 stamp images contained on the printing plate (400 images was standard for the Presidential series). Notable also is the red-violet color chosen for the 3¢ stamps, a brighter hue than the traditional purple. [citation needed] Famous American Series of 1940

  4. Errors, freaks, and oddities - Wikipedia

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    Missing color: Associated with printing processes which print the stamp in several different colors. [4] Missing overprint: A stamp valid for postage only when overprinted but with a missing overprint. [5] Double impression: Stamp, or overprint, was printed twice, one impression offset from the other. [6]

  5. Sneak peek at recently revealed 2024 postage stamp designs ...

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    This series of low denomination stamps features a different flower design for five values, including a 1-cent fringed tulip, 2-cent daffodils, 3-cent peonies, 5-cent red tulips and 10-cent poppies ...

  6. Washington–Franklin Issues - Wikipedia

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    Variations in color in printing ink is somewhat common in stamp production, but the variance in this case ventured into a different color completely—orange. By the time this acute color variance was brought to the attention of officials a good number of sheets had already been distributed among the various post offices and were most likely ...

  7. Postage stamp design - Wikipedia

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    Since different kinds and sizes of mail normally pay different amounts of postage, the stamps need to carry a value. In a very few cases, the denomination has been omitted; for instance, during the tumults of 1949 China, undenominated stamps were issued, so as to allow the price of a stamp to fluctuate on a daily basis depending on the value of ...

  8. Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps

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    Beginning in 1908 the Washington–Franklin definitive stamps were issued over a twelve-year period in denominations ranging from one cent to five dollars, with different colors for each denomination, all with the same engraved profile of Washington or Franklin. While both Washington and Franklin occur on the 1-cent values, both in green, only ...

  9. Naked Maja (postage stamps) - Wikipedia

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    In 1958, the Spanish La maja desnuda stamps were reproduced in the US on one stamp of the 10-stamp set with the most famous paintings of Goya issued for the Day of the Stamp. Another issue, an imperforated block of four stamps with four facsimiles of the 1930 4 pesetas Spanish stamp, albeit in different colors, was issued in the US in 1996. [8]

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