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1920’s Stamps

The U.S. stamps of the 1920s were dominated by the Series of 1922, the first new design of stamps to appear in a generation. The lower values depicted various Presidents, with the 5c particularly intended as a memorial of the recently-deceased Theodore Roosevelt, while the higher values included an "American Indian" (Hollow Horn Bear), the Statue of Liberty, Golden Gate bridge, which had yet to be built, Niagara Falls, a buffalo, the Lincoln Memorial and so forth. Stamp printing was switching from a flat plate press to a rotary press while these stamps were in use.

The 1920s saw a number of 150th anniversaries connected with the American Revolutionary War, and a number of stamps were issued in connection with those. These included the first US souvenir sheet, for the Battle of White Plains sesquicentenary, and the first overprint, reading "MOLLY / PITCHER", the heroine of the Battle of Monmouth.

In 1929, theft problems in the Midwest led to the Kansas-Nebraska overprints on the regular stamps.

The German zeppelins were of much interest during this period, and in 1930 the U.S. Postal Department issued special stamps to be used on the Pan-American flight of Graf Zeppelin.

Rare Stamps of the United Kingdom
Penny Black - world's first postage stamp
Penny Blue - Trial printings from a penny black plate
Two pence blue - issued for second rate step, at same time as Penny Black
VR official - first official stamp
Prince Consort Essay
Penny Red - improved follow-ons to the Penny Black
Archer Roulette - experimental separation of stamps
Edward VII 2d Tyrian plum - withdrawn before issue, but one used
See also list of British postage stamps

Rare Stamps of the United States
St. Louis Bear
Alexandria "Blue Boy" Postmaster's Provisional - Unique, entire.
New York Postmaster's Provisional
1c Z grill - rarest US stamp
Black Bull - dollar value of 1898 Trans-Mississippi
Inverted Jenny - the "upside-down airplane"
Dag Hammarskjöld invert - error deliberately mass-produced
CIA invert - modern error
Pan-American invert

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