Recent Purchase From USPS

I just received the Putting a Stamp on The American Experience booklet and stamps.
I purchased it because of the Franklin stamps. I decided to buy this to add to my Benjamin Franklin stamp collection. Even though this is a new issue, what do you think of the stamps

So people know what we are talking about:



Awesome design IMO.

Thank you for posting the pic.

So, is this the fifth time the Franklin 5c, or a version of it, has appeared on a US stamp?

1. Original issue
2. 1947 CIPEX souvenir sheet
3. 1972 Stamp Collecting issue
4. 1997 Pacific souvenir sheet
5. New 2025 stamp

This is one of those stamps that are going to be hard to find postally used!

I like the stamp I think it's a good looking stamp. Whether or not it will Be worth something, remains to be seen. Regardless it will stay in my collection.

This stamp is going to be confusing to many people. A five cent forever stamp? I would think hardly anyone would use it just because some won't know if it is worth 5 cents or 78 cents or whatever. Still, a nice stamp, though.

To opusjeff:
If memory serves, isn't Franklin also pictured within the 29c Nat'l Postal Museum quartet?
Also, you said "U.S. stamp," did you mean to exclude regular issues? I thought the original 5 cents was a "regular". You know, he was on several "banknote" large and small sized regulars of the 19th century, the 1c of the Series 1902 regulars, several denominations of the Washington Franklin series 1908-, 1c of "Fourth" Bureau series that followed, 1/2c on Presidential series 1938 & Liberty series 1954, 7c on Prominent Americans series 1965. (His visage was also used on many government stamped envelopes, regular and airmails.)
(I wonder what 1 or 2 others I missed?)

stampsOnMail, you are correct that Franklin is pictured on the Postal Museum block, but I believe that opusjeff's list was specifically regarding the exact 5-cent 1847 Scott #1 stamp design that has been replicated on those listed stamp-on-stamp issues. There are some other stamps pictured on the 29-cent block (c3a, c13, etc) but not the US #1.

Yes, I was referring to the original Franklin stamp itself, appearing on US stamps, not Ben Franklin in general. :-)