US Flags

For those who appreciate U.S. Flags, here are a few scans from the 60s. These flags and I are about the same age...





And I might as well throw in the Historic Flags:



Kirkbus

Welcome to my second favourite thread !

I do think though that Kirk should put a full facial of himself next to those superb specimens to see who has aged the most !

















Oh! what a lovely thread !

Londonbus1

Nice stuff Kirk. My favourite is 1208. It looks clean and neat
and is one of the few US stamps with no country indicator, as if one was
needed. It will always remind me of the Kennedy era.

One question: What is the Combination Press?

Did I say this was a great thread?
I'll write something tomorrow.

Londonbus1

Thanks for posting the flag stamps, Kirk. I think one of my favorite US stamps is the 10 cent one of the crossed flags. It is so simple, yet so elegant.

Three cheers for the red, white, and blue!



Londonbus, that's a nice flag cover you posted!

As it relates to all of the recent news of the latest Lady Liberty and Flag stamps, I thought I'd post this as an interesting study.

First, I have always learned from school days that the Flag should come first, so in my mind, I have started collecting these stamps with the Flag and Lady Liberty. However, the Scott catalog in all of their wisdom has elected to make the se-tenant collecting of these stamps with Lady Liberty coming first, so the Scott numbers are reversed in the following examples:



While I have not come across the perf. 11 variety yet, the three that I do have are typical of the issue. One interesting point is that the ATM Booklet (Scott 4518-4519), as shown on the last scan shows a distinctly grainy look to the blue background as compared to the coils. I don't know if this was intentional or had to do with the printer used for that particular variety, but at least it does make it easy to identify.