Used Coil Strip Length

John:

Rich also has a page with some "selected" solo uses of the Prexie stamps

https://www.pedersonstamps.com/sele...ie-solo-uses

I'm gonna work on creating a page and frame for my 14 strip. I had already planned to use 2 clear mounts (with the open top). The 265mm strips I have still aren't long enough. The page will be put into a sheet protector so it will have extra protection.

Mike, Yes, I saw his other themed pages of listings. I must confess I found the solo listings so narrowly defined that I moved on.

My candidate for shortest coil length: one-third.

The September 1995 American Philatelist had the following blurb about a card available in the sales circuits:


Shortly thereafter I had occasion to visit ASP headquarters, then still in State College. I spent time in the sales department and was surprised to see the card in one of the sales books. I bought it on a whim. It is essentially three trisect pieces all from the right side of Scott 839..

That is really cool. So was that considered 1.5 cents postage? Did the USPS every really allow bisected stamps?

They are less than halves, so I am calling it "trisected" to create 1 cent total postage, which was the postcard rate at this time.
The "can of worms" of U.S. bisects should be a whole different thread.

This book is the book which lists the possible rate and fee combinations which could be paid for by a single (solo) stamp of the Prexie Series.



This book cannot be beat by a single subsequent publication. That is also why, issued in 1994 it is an elusive title to buy.

There is also the series of publications, 97 running from 1991 into 2022, of tThe Prexie Era Newsletter which can be found here online and downloadable for free: https://www.usstamps.org/resources/prexie-era/

It stopped being published when the then current editor retired and there was no volunteer to replace him.

EDIT: Your, OP, find of a 14 stamp used coil strip would have made a nice short article there.

Here's the strip mounted on a new page:



Fourteen seems the limit for an 8.5x11 page.

Sadly, I see that it is a bit crooked (strip not all the way down in the mount on left). I fixed it, but didn't do a new scan.