1958-1962 Four Cent Commemorative issues
1958
Issues
The 4¢ and 8¢ Bolivar issue, Scott 1110-1111, appear on the Champions of Liberty page.
Scott
1112, 4¢ Trans-Atlantic Cable,
plate number 26078
Scott
1113, 1¢ Lincoln (make-up rate),
plate number 26246
Scott
1113 var, local precancel, plate number 26245
Scott
1114, 3¢ Lincoln (postcard rate),
plate number 26254
Scott
1114 var, misperfed vertically, plate number 26253
This is an UL plate number single, although the way it was photographically cropped from the plate block, it appears to be UR.
Scott
1115, 4¢ Lincoln-Douglas Debates,
plate number 26106
Scott
1116, 4¢ Lincoln,
plate number 26272
Scott
1116 var, 4¢ Lincoln, plate number 26272, reverse image appearing on the gum
side of Scott C53, 7¢ Alaska Statehood. The two stamps were
printed at the same time, using the same color of ink.
The 4¢ and 8¢ Kossuth issue, Scott 1117-1118, appear on the Champions of Liberty page.
Scott
1119, 4¢ Freedom of Religion,
plate number 26115
Scott
1120, 4¢ Overland Mail,
plate number 26160
Scott
1121, 4¢ Noah Webster,
plate number 26104
Scott
1122, 4¢ Forestry Conservation,
plate number 26156
Scott
1122 var, misperfed horizontally, captured plate number 26167
Scott
1123, 4¢ Fort Duquesne,
plate number 26200
1959
Issues
Scott
1124, 4¢ Oregon Statehood,
plate number 26236
The 4¢ and 8¢ San Martin issue, Scott 1125-1126, appear on the Champions of Liberty page.
Scott
1127, 4¢ NATO,
plate number 26299
Scott
1128, 4¢ Arctic Exploration / U.S.S.
Nautilus,
plate number 26303
Scott
1129, 8¢ Peace Through Trade,
plate number 26317
Scott
1130, 4¢ Silver Centennial,
plate number 26357
Scott
1131, 4¢ St. Lawrence Seaway,
plate number 26335
Scott
1131 var, misperfed vertically, captured plate number 26333
Scott
1131 var, reverse image on gum, plate number 26335(Image courtesy of eBay / sheetguy2)
Scott
1132, 4¢ 49-Star Flag,
plate number 26366
Scott
1132 var, misperfed horizontally to top, captured plate number 26368 (Image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
Scott
1132 var, misperfed horizontally to bottom, plate number 26366 (Image courtesy of Hipstamp / northstamp)
Scott
1132 var, misperfed verically, plate number 26366 (Image courtesy of eBay / sheetguy2)
Scott
1133, 4¢ Soil Conservation,
plate number 26406
Scott
1133 var, misperfed horizontally, plate number 26592 (Image courtesy of eBay / stuffpreserve)
Scott
1133 var, misperfed vertically, plate number 26592 (Image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
Scott
1134, 4¢ Petroleum Industry,
plate number 26416
Scott
1135, 4¢ Dental Hygiene,
plate number 26441
The 4¢ and 8¢ Reuter issue, Scott 1136-1137, appear on the Champions of Liberty page.
Scott
1138, 4¢ Ephraim MacDowall,
plate number 26500
Scott
1138a, imperforate horizontally error, plate number 26498 (Image courtesy of The Philatelic Foundation)
1960
Issues
Scott
1139, 4¢ Credo - Washington,
plate number 26495
Scott
1139 var, local precancel, plate number 26494
Scott
1139 var, misperfed horizontally (high), plate number 26495 and captured plate number 26494
(26495 image courtesy of Stuart Katz; 26494 image courtesy of eBay / sheetguy2)
Scott
1139 var, misperfed horizontally (low), plate number 26494 (Image courtesy of eBay / sheetguy2)
Scott
1139 var, misperfed vertically, plate number 26488 (Image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
Scott
1140, 4¢ Credo - Franklin,
plate number 26591
Scott
1140 var, local precancel, plate number 26591
Scott
1140 var, misperfed horizontally, captured plate number 26591
Scott
1140 var, misperfed vertically, plate number 26589 (Image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
Scott
1141, 4¢ Credo - Jefferson,
plate number 26618
Scott
1141 var, local precancel, plate number 26629
Scott
1142, 4¢ Credo - Key,
plate number 26693
Scott
1142 var, local precancel, plate number 26693
Scott
1142 var, misperfed horizontally, plate number 26693
Scott
1143, 4¢ Credo - Lincoln,
plate number 26803
Scott
1143 var, local precancel, plate number 26797
Scott
1144, 4¢ Credo - Henry,
plate number 26738
Scott
1144 var, local precancel, plate number 26738
Scott
1144 var, misperfed vertically, plate number 26752
Scott
1145, 4¢ Boy Scouts,
plate number 26530
Scott
1146, 4¢ 1960 Winter Olympics,
plate number 26541
The 4¢ and 8¢ Masaryk issue, Scott 1147-1148, appear on the Champions of Liberty page.
Scott
1149, 4¢ World Refugee Year,
plate number 26599
Scott
1150, 4¢ Water Conservation,
plate number 26600
Scott
1150 var, misperfed vertically, plate number 26592 (Image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
Scott
1150 var, misperfed horizontally, plate number 26600 (Image courtesy of eBay / sheetguy2)
Scott
1150 var, blue misprinted due to obstruction, plate number 26588 (Image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
Scott
1150a, brown omitted error, plate number 26592
Scott
1151, 4¢ SEATO,
plate number 26633
Scott
1151 var, misperfed horizontally, plate number 26633 (Image courtesy of eBay / sheetguy2)
Scott
1152, 4¢ American Woman,
plate number 26644
Scott
1153, 4¢ 50-Star Flag,
plate number 26639
Scott
1153 var, misperfed horizontally, plate number 26648 (Image courtesy of Hipstamp / northstamp)
Scott
1154, 4¢ Pony Express,
plate number 26626
Scott
1155, 4¢ Handicapped,
plate number 26679
Scott
1156, 4¢ World Forestry Congress,
plate number 26688
Scott
1157, 4¢ Mexican Independence,
plate number 26707
Scott
1157 var, misperfed horizontally, plate number 26717 (Image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
Scott
1158, 4¢ Japan Treaty,
plate number 26729
Scott
1158 var, misperfed horizontally, plate number 26729
Scott
1158 var, misperfed vertically, plate number 26726 (Image courtesy of eBay / sheetguy2)
Scott
1158 var, misperfed due to paper fold, plate number 26726 (Image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
The 4¢ and 8¢ Paderewski issue, Scott 1159-1160, appear on the Champions of Liberty page.
Scott
1161, 4¢ Robert A. Taft,
plate number 26759
Scott
1162, 4¢ Automotive Industry,
plate number 26777
Scott
1163, 4¢ Boys' Clubs,
plate number 26666
Scott
1164, 4¢ Providence Automated Post Office,
plate number 26799
Scott
1164 var, misperfed horizontally (high), captured plate number 26798 (Image courtesy of The Philatelic Foundation)
Scott
1164 var, misperfed horizontally (low), captured plate number 26798 (Image courtesy of eBay / sheetguy2)
The 4¢ and 8¢ Mannerheim issue, Scott 1165-1166, appear on the Champions of Liberty page.
Scott
1167, 4¢ Camp Fire Girls,
plate number 26746
Scott
1167 var, misperfed horizontally, plate number 26740 (Image courtesy of Bill Langs)
The 4¢ and 8¢ Garibaldi issue, Scott 1168-1169, appear on the Champions of Liberty page.
Scott
1170, 4¢ Walter F. George,
plate number 26780
Scott
1171, 4¢ Andrew Carnegie,
plate number 26676
Scott
1172, 4¢ John Foster Dulles,
plate number 26770
Scott
1173, 4¢ Communications for Peace,
plate number 26847
1961
Issues
The 4¢ and 8¢ Gandhi issue, Scott 1174-1175, appear on the Champions of Liberty page.
Scott
1176, 4¢ Range Conservation,
plate number 26870
Scott
1177, 4¢ Horace Greeley,
plate number 26898
Scott
1178, 4¢ Fort Sumter,
plate number 26913
Scott
1183, 4¢ Kansas Statehood,
plate number 26937
Scott
1184, 4¢ George W. Norris / TVA,
plate number 26991
Scott
1185, 4¢ Naval Aviation,
plate number 27014
Scott
1186, 4¢ Workmen's Compensation,
plate number 27024
The entire printing has inverted plate numbers for all LL and LR
positions.
Scott
1187, 4¢ Frederic Remington,
plate number 27035
Scott
1188, 4¢ Sun Yat-Sen,
plate number 27040
Scott
1189, 4¢ Basketball Centennial,
plate number 27061
Scott
1190, 4¢ Nursing, dark blue plate number 27081; orange plate number 27080
Scott
1190 var, black shifted left, plate number 27083
Scott
1190 var, blue and orange shifted down and left, plate number 27096 (Image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
Scott
1190 var, green shifted down and left, orange shifted up and right, plate number 27083 (Image courtesy of Bill Langs)
1962
Issues
Scott
1179, 4¢ Shiloh, plate number 27180
Scott
1179 var, misperfed horizontally, plate number 27179 (Image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
Scott
1191, 4¢ New Mexico Statehood,
plate number 27114
Scott
1191 var, misperfed horizontally, captured plate number 27114
Scott
1192, 4¢ Arizona Statehood,
plate number 27128
This is believed to be the first U.S. stamp where part of the design intentionally appears in the selvage.
Scott
1192 var, misperfed vertically, plate number 27128
Scott
1192 var, misperfed horizontally, plate number 27127 (Image courtesy of Bill Langs)
Scott
1193, 4¢ Project Mercury,
plate number 27071
Scott
1194, 4¢ Malaria,
plate number 27154
Scott
1195, Charles Evans Hughes,
plate number 27274
Scott
1179, 4¢ Shiloh,
plate number 27180
Scott
1196, 4¢ Seattle 1962 World's Fair,
plate number 27203
Scott
1196 var, misperfed vertically, captured plate numbers 27176 and 27204 (27176 image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
Scott
1197, 4¢ Louisiana Statehood,
plate number 27205
Scott
1198, 4¢ Homestead Act,
plate number 27148
Scott
1198 var, probably fake local precancel, plate number 27149
Clues:
-
Local precancels were generally only authorized for definitive size stamps
- The quality
appears to be more typical of a rubber handstamp applied manually to a single stamp, rather than of an overprint-type mat with high quality ink applied in a grid to a block of stamps by a professional printer
- No example is known on cover. The precancellations appear
to have been applied long after any possible contemporary usage
- The stamp was offered along with a number of other identical suspicious Elko local precancels
on stamps spanning a quarter century
Scott
1199, 4¢ Girl Scouts,
plate number 27217
Scott
1200, 4¢ Brien McMahon,
plate number 27227
Scott
1201, 4¢ Apprenticeship,
plate number 27250
Scott
1202, 4¢ Sam Rayburn,
plate number 27263
Scott
1203, 4¢ Hammarskjold, pair with
plate
numbers 27266 (black) and 27277 (yellow) as the stamp was intended to
look.
Scott
1204, 4¢ Hammarskjold invert special printing, pair with
plate
numbers 27266 (black) and 27277 (inverted yellow)
The post office
intentionally reprinted millions of these errors to destroy their
philatelic value. This practice was later ruled illegal by the U.S. Supreme Court. Nevertheless, it served as a caution as many collectors don't disclose new error discoveries until they are certain the stamps are no longer being printed.
Scott
1205, 4¢ Christmas 1962, Wreath,
plate number 27301
Scott
1205 var, fake local precancel, plate number 27311
Clues:
- Phelan is an unincorporated area even now, 60 years later. The area had no major industries or other legitimate need for precancels
- The quality
appears to be more typical of a rubber handstamp applied manually to a single stamp, rather than of an overprint-type mat with high quality ink applied in a grid to a block of stamps by a professional printer
- No example is known on cover. The precancellations appear
to have been applied long after any possible contemporary usage
- The stamp was offered along with a number of other identical suspicious local precancels
on stamps spanning a quarter century
Scott
1205 var, misperfed horizontally (low), plate number 27306 (Image courtesy of Bill Langs)
Scott
1205 var, misperfed horizontally (high), plate number 27314 (Image courtesy of eBay / sheetguy2)
Scott 1206,
4¢ Higher Education, black plate number 27300; dark green plate number 27296
Scott 1206 var, black ink shifted up with result that the lamp flame points down! -- black plate number 27300
(Image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
Scott 1206 var, black ink shifted up, green plate number 27296 (Image courtesy of eBay / sheetguy2)
Scott
1207, 4¢ Winslow Homer,
plate number 27374
Scott
1207a, imperforate vertically error, plate number 27381 (Image courtesy of The Philatelic Foundation)
Related pages:
3¢ Commemoratives of the 1950s
The Liberty series
Champions of Liberty issues
The 1962 series
5¢ Commemoratives
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