Eleanor Roosevelt's Comment On Her Husband's Hobby

I found this quote rather humorous:




It was taken out of this retrospect posted today from when Eleanor Roosevelt visited Bloomington, IL in 1937:

http://www.pantagraph.com/news/loca...b2963f4.html

Interesting "piece" about Eleanor Roosevelt , wt1 !

Not a FDR fan and not a big fan of his stamps he designed including his last. It is funny how he was the only living president to be on a USA postage stamp.

What stamp was that? Roosevelt was not on a stamp until 930-933, which was after he died.

LOL come on you really mean you don't know the stamp? I thought everyone knew this. Take some time and search for the answer.

mkfarm : I enjoy the history and how it ties into stamps . The first set of
FDR stamps were issued two months after his death . ( FDR Memorial issues of 1945 )

You posted some beautiful cork ( Fancy ) cancels .... an excellent value ... if you would like some resources to identify those cancels , I have some sources you are welcome to use . Best John

There are some rare cancels known as Waterbury cancels ( running chicken ) ... Waterbury , Connecticut .


Although "poorly articulated" this is what I think mkfarm is referring too.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aro...ong-the-way/

"LOL come on you really mean you don't know the stamp? I thought everyone knew this. Take some time and search for the answer".
I already know the answer, I posted it above, as did someone else. If you know another, I suggest you post it.

Thank you but some of them may be mine as I have more than enough info on cancels. However so everyone can stop picking the wrong stamps I will give you the info.

First you all are picking stamps after he died and to be the correct stamp of course he had to be living.

FDR had more control over the old PO than was is really talked about or written about, in addition many people in the PO took the heat for some of his decisions.

It was 1933 and the stamp is #732 the National Recover Act. Of course even FDR and the PO knew breaking tradition would be hard. So how could they get FDR on a postage stamp? It was simple he went incognito as the businessman.

It also was one of FDR first propaganda stamps. It's sole purpose was to call attention to the NRA and to encourage citizens to support the program. take a look FDR is more than clearly identifiable sporting a hat and a mustache.

If you have the book (Encyclopedia of US Stamps and Stamp Collecting) there is a nice write up on this stamp at page 206.

edits to clean up some typo errors

BTW the last stamp designed was #928 Towards United Nations.

I know that, but what does that have to do with the statement "It is funny how he was the only living president to be on a USA postage stamp".

He was never on a stamp while alive, which is the point of the last several messages.

1933???? He died in 1945. I gave you a nice clean resources proving he was the fist living president on a postage stamp a full 12 years prior to his death. Though if you take your magnifying glass out you will see a nice young and healthy FDR. BTW it is a nice stamp, since then no living president has ever been on a postage stamp.

That man in the hat might be almost anyone. All four are very basically drawn tiny faces. It might be Roosevelt, and it might be almost anyone else. At best it is a figure reminiscent of Roosevelt, which I am sure was intentional.
Since pretty much all postage stamps are propaganda of one sort or another, it really means nothing that this is no exception.

mkfam

You have not provided facts to support your thesis that the businessman is FDR:



Your use of the expression "LOL" suggests that this should be obvious to all philatelists.

Please supply us with your evidence.

mkfarm : I am extending an "olive branch" to you . You may indeed have many sources for identifying corks cancels. That is well and good. But what would be interesting is identifying and sharing with the "community" the process you use to determine the post office which applied that franking . It would be informative , and a source of "good discussion".

We all "learn" by sharing knowledge and opinions.

Best Regard John

edited for typos ... happens too all.

According to The United States Commemorative Stamps of the Twentieth Century by Max Johl (one of the great two volume philatelic works covering up to 1947) the design was taken from a poster that Roosevelt was in, but that Roosevelt himself recommended that the figure be given a mustache and hat and turned into a businessman. These changes mean that it is no longer actually the president, but simply based on him, so saying that he is the only living president pictured on a stamp is something of a stretch.
The female figure was also added by changing it from a male student in the original poster.

Here please settle down. Revcollector nailed it.

The original poster:
http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1...160708&img=1

The rest of the stamp via Arago:
http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2...6&img=1&pg=1