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Examples of Plate Number Singles

Our goal is to illustrate one example of a plate number single for every U.S. stamp that was issued with plate numbers.

Plate Number singles from the Classical Period

• Early plate numbers, 1851 issues through 1869 Pictorials

• The Banknotes:
  National, Continental and American Bank Note Co. printings, 1870-1887

• The "Small Banknotes" of 1890 (complete)

• The Columbian series of 1893 (complete)

The First Bureau Issue

• Unwatermarked (1894)

• Double-line watermarked (1895, complete)

• New colors (1898, complete)

The Turn of the Century

• The Trans-Mississippi series of 1898 (complete)

• The Pan-American issue of 1901 (complete)

• The Second Bureau Issue of 1902-1903

• Early 20th Century Commemoratives, 1904-1915 (complete)

The Washington-Franklin series (Third Bureau Issue)

• Double-line watermarked issues

• Single-line watermarked issues (complete)

• Unwatermarked issues (complete)

• Offset printings (complete)

• Other marginal markings

The Fourth Bureau Issue (complete)

• 1922-1923 Flat Plate issues

• 1923-1931 Rotary Press issues

• Kansas-Nebraska overprints of 1929

• Related issues

The Second Quarter of the 20th Century (complete)

• The Early 1920s  (1920-1925 commemoratives)

• The 2¢ Harding Memorial issue of 1923

• 2-cent Reds  (1926-1932 commemoratives)

• 3-cent Commemorative issues of the 1930s, 1933-1939

• The Presidential Series of 1938

• The Famous Americans issue of 1940 and related issues

• 3-cent Commemorative issues of the 1940s, 1940-1949

Mid-Century issues and the end of "real" plate numbers

• 3-cent Commemorative issues of the 1950s, 1950-1958 (complete)

• The Liberty Series of 1954 (complete)

• 4-cent Commemorative issues of 1957-1962 (complete)

• The "Sixth and a Half" Bureau Series of 1962 (complete)

• 5-cent Commemorative issues of 1963-1967 (complete)

• The Prominent Americans Series of 1965 (complete)

• 6-cent Commemorative issues of 1968-1971

• 8-cent Commemorative issues of 1971-1973

• 10-cent Commemorative issues of 1974-1975

• The Americana Series of 1975 (complete)

• 13-cent Commemorative issues of 1975-1978

• 15-cent Commemorative issues of 1978-1981

The Beginning of the "Representative Plate Number" Era

• The Great Americans Series of 1980-2002 (complete)

• Transportation Series coils of 1981-1999

• Modern High Value issues, 1981-2006

• Flora and Fauna issues, 1990-2005

• 18-cent Commemorative issues of 1981

• 20-cent Commemorative issues of 1981-1984

• 22-cent Commemorative issues of 1985-1988

• 25-cent Commemorative issues of 1988-1990

• 29-cent Commemorative issues of 1991-1995

Plate Number Singles of the Modern Era

• American Culture Series of 1995-2005

• American Scenes Series of 1995-2005, including American Transportation series

• Distinguished Americans Series of 2000-2007

• American Design Series of 2003-2007

• 32-cent Commemorative issues of 1995-1998

• 33-cent Commemorative issues of 1998-2000

• 34-cent Commemorative issues of 2000-2002

• 37-cent Commemorative issues of 2002-2005

• 39-cent Commemorative issues of 2005-2007

• 41-cent Commemorative issues of 2007-2008

• Forever stamps of 2007-2008

• 42-cent Commemorative issues of 2008 (under construction)

Private printers' prefixes on modern definitives

Spotlight on the (5¢) Non-profit Sea Coast Coils of 2002-2005

Spotlight on the 37¢ Flag issues of 2002-2005

Spotlight on the 39¢ Lady Liberty issues of 2005-2007

Airmail issues

• Early Airmail issues 1918-1950
• Modern Airmail issues 1950-2007

"Back of the Book" issues

• Special Delivery issues and Airmail Special Delivery stamps
• Postage Due stamps and Parcel Post Postage Due stamps
• Official stamps -- Banknotes and modern
• Parcel Post issues and Special Handling stamps (complete)
• Offices in China (complete)

Deep "Back of the Book"

• Newspaper stamps (complete)

• Postal Savings stamps and other savings stamp issues

• Revenue and Documentary stamps

• Proprietary stamps

• Stock Transfer and other revenue stamps

• Postal Note stamps (complete)

• U.S. Possessions and Confederate States

• Dummy and Test stamps

Hunting Permit ("Duck stamps")

• $1 and $2 issues (1934-1958, complete)

• $3, $5 and $7.50 issues (1959-1986, complete)

• $10, $12.50 and $15 issues (1987-2007, complete)

• Examples of State duck stamps

Examples of Foreign Plate Number Singles

This page was last updated on April 27, 2008.

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