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Sold Date: 02/24/2011
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Stamps

This auction is for 1900 - 1940 - (75 stamps) 4 sheet of 15 - 32¢ commemmorative stamps and 1 sheet of 15 - 33¢ Celebrate the Century limited edition commemorate stamps

1900 - 1940 ( 5 sealed packets - 75 stamps)

1900 - USPS Item # 5537 - $4.80

1910 - USPS Item # 5538 - $4.80

1920 - USPS Item # 5541 - $4.80

1930 - USPS Item # 5542 - $4.80

1940 - USPS Item # 5543 - $4.95

USPS Total Face Value $24.15

Mystic Stamp Catalog 2010 Value $ 16.95 per sheet for a total of $84.75 (Mint condition)

Very low starting bid as these sealed mint condition commemorative stamps have a face value of $24.15 and the starting bid is lower than the face value of these mint stamps - Unavailable at the United States Post Office!

Even if you are not collector this is a steal with no reserve!

5 sealed packets of 15 stamps each for a total of 75 mint condition limited edition commemorative stamps.

Celebrate the Century is the name of a series of postage stamps made by the United States Postal Service featuring images recalling various important events in the 20th century in the United States. Ten of these sheets were issued, with each sheet depicting events of one decade of the 20th century, from the 1900s to 1990s. Fifteen stamps were embedded into each sheet. For the first eight sheets (1900s to 1970s) of the fifteen stamps, one stamp of each sheet was printed using the intaglio process , while the remaining fourteen were offset printed along with the rest of the sheet.

These gummed souvenir sheets had an unusually large format of 7½"x9" (190mmx229mm). The top left hand corner sported the decade in a number format, the entire background of the sheet was devoted a specific event of that decade (e.g. the Wright brothers standing next to their Flyer II on the 1900s sheet.)

The fifteen stamps were printed at an angle of 8°, the horizontal perforations ran from the stamps up to the edge of sheet. The stamps were arranged on the sheets in four rows, and nested in arrangements unique to each sheet. An area was devoted to the description of the decade as depicted by the stamps on it. The description of each stamp was printed on the gummed side of the sheet, behind each stamp. The words Arts, Sports, Historical Events ran on the left hand edge, Technology, Entertainment, Science ran on the top edge, Political Figures, Life Style on the right hand edge of the sheet.

1900s - Title: Dawn of the Twentieth Century - Date of issue: 3 February 1998 - Denomination: 32¢ - MINT CONDITION - SEALED

No of stamps in sheet: 15

The stamps:

1st row: Ford Model T; President Theodore Roosevelt; Movie Great Train Robbery; Crayola crayons; St. Louis World's Fair

2nd row: Pure Food and Drug Act; Wright Flyer; Ashcan School

3rd row: Ellis Island; John Muir

4th row: Teddy bear; W. E. B. Du Bois; The Gibson Girl; 1903 World Series; Robie House

Background image: The Wright brothers stand beside their Flyer II, near Dayton, Ohio. Intaglio stamp: The Gibson Girl created by illustrator Charles Dana Gibson.

1910s - Title: America Looks Beyond its Borders - Date of issue: 3 February 1998 - Denomination: 32¢ - MINT CONDITION - SEALED

No of stamps in sheet: 15

The stamps:

1st row: Charlie Chaplin; Federal Reserve System; George Washington Carver

2nd row: 1913 Armory Show; Transcontinental telephone line; Panama Canal

3rd row: Jim Thorpe; Grand Canyon; I Want You; Boy Scouts of America; President Woodrow Wilson;

4th row: First Crossword puzzle; Jack Dempsey; Erector Set; Child Labor Reform

Background image: Boy Scouts participate in a patriotic "Wake Up America" rally on New York City's Fifth Avenue. Intaglio stamp: Panama Canal.

1920s Title: The Roaring Twenties. - Date of issue: 28 May 1998 - Denomination: 32¢ - MINT CONDITION - SEALED

No of stamps in sheet: 15

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