Founding Fathers on Stamps

August 19, 1947, Republic of the Philippines issued air mail stamps featuring portraits of Presidents Manuel Quezon (Commonwealth Philippines President) and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.


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Wonder if rather than focusing on US founding fathers, we chose to expand to include 'revolutionaries'. Then we could add people like Paul Revere and Nathaniel Hale and Morgan and Rogers and Von Stuben and . . . ?

 

Both stamps look good and neat.

 

Alexander Hamilton did a lot of founding so I'll put him up again, in most of his various colors of the U.S. Departmentals. These are card proofs, and some Trial Colors.

 

Since we're founding, we'll need a Navy man, I nominate Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, as seen on the Departmentals, and a few Trial Colors.

 

Nice color variations. Both are good looking sets.

 

Thanks! Those are just the 30 and 90 Cent values, there are nine departments, each with their own stamps.Since this board is world wide, the following list will show how large this set really is. The nine departments and number of stamps issued to them are;
Agriculture..............9 stamps
Executive............... 5 stamps
Interior..................10 stamps
Justice...................10 stamps
Navy......................11 stamps
State.....................15 stamps The dollar values are different.
Treasury................11 stamps
War......................11 Stamps
Post Office..............10 stamps............this set uses numerals rather than the same vignettes as the other Departments. Here are the 4 dollar State values.

 

A full set of War Department card proofs in the plum shade. This shade was not a trial color, but a different shade used for one of the five different printings of these card proofs.

 

My last post took us a bit off topic, so back to our founding fathers with another look at Thomas Jefferson.

 

Just for fun, I'll toss in a General from our war with Mexico, ole Fuss N Feathers his own self, General Winfield Scott.

 

By now everybody should have a good idea which are trial colors, but if not, here's a clue, all of this next set are trial colors, produced for the 1818 International Cotton Exhibition in Altanta, as are the other trial colors that I've posted here are. You will notice that there are two detail scans included, the 2c is because of the tool mark in the left margin and the 24c is because of the extra blue spot under General Scott's eye, making him look like he has a black....errr .....blue eye. By the way, there are 5 trial colors.

 

Good looking sets. Although the ones with variation of colors look more appealing for me.

 

That is one of the reason that the Departmental stamps are not as popular as the regularly issued U.S Bank note stamps, the fact that each department was one color for all values. Your's is the majority's opinion.

 

Yes, I also think that majority would want that there are variations.