UNITED STATES, Commemorative issues 1898-1920

Return To Catalogue - United States Overview - 1893 Columbus issue

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1898 Omaha show

  1 c green (Marquette on the Mississippi)
  2 c red (farming in the west)
  4 c orange (Indian hunting buffalo)
  5 c blue (Fremont on Rocky Mountains
  8 c brown (troops guarding train)
  10 c violet (hardships of emigration)
  50 c green (western mining prospector)
  1 Dollar black (western cattle in storm)
  2 Dollar brown (Mississippi river bridge)

These stamps are perforated 12 and have watermark 'U.S.P.S.'.

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

1901 Buffalo show "Pan America"

  1 c green and black
  2 c red and black
  4 c brown and black
  5 c blue and black
  8 c brown and black
  10 c brown and black

These stamps are perforated 12 and have watermark 'U.S.P.S.'. The values 1 c, 2 c and 4 c exist with inverted center, example:

(2 c, inverted center, image obtained from a Siegel auction)

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

Forged inverted stamps exist. For example the forger R.P.H.Wolle made forgeries of the 2 c inverted stamp (source: The London Philatelist Vol 13, 1904, page 98, which quotes the 'Boston Herald' of March 14). Wolle erased the central part of a genuine stamp and paste an inverted center of another stamp in its place. He then sold several hundreds of them for US$150 each.

1904 Commemorative series of 1904

  1 c green (Livingston)
  2 c red (Jefferson)
  3 c violet (Monroe)
  5 c blue (Mc Kinsley)
  10 c brown (map)

These stamps are perforated 12 and have watermark 'U.S.P.S.'.

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

1907 Founding of Jamestown

  1 c green (1580 Capt. John Smith 1631)
  2 c red (Founding of Jamestown 1607)
  5 c blue (Pocahontas)

These stamps are perforated 12 and have watermark 'U.S.P.S.'.

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

1909 Alaska exhibition, portrait of "William H. Seward"

  2 c red

This stamp is perforated 12 and has watermark 'U.S.P.S.'.

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

1909 Navigation on the Hudson

  2 c red

This stamp is perforated 12 and has watermark 'U.S.P.S.'.

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

1912 San Francisco 1915 exhibition

  1 c green (Balboa 1513)
  2 c red (Panama Canal)
  5 c blue
  10 c orange

These stamps exist with perforation 12 or 10, they have watermark 'U.S.P.S'.

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

1919 Commemoration of the victory

  3 c violet

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

1920 Commemoration of the 3rd centenary of the arrival of the Mayflower 1620-1920

  1 c green (The Mayflower)
  2 c red (Landing of the pilgrims)
  5 c blue (Signing of the compact)

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

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