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Posted 04/26/2026   08:26 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Christopherjohn to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
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
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Posted 04/26/2026   08:37 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rogdcam to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
So people know what we are talking about:



Awesome design IMO.
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Posted 04/26/2026   08:42 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Christopherjohn to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you for posting the pic.
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Posted 05/04/2026   06:38 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add opusjeff to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
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
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Edited by opusjeff - 05/04/2026 06:39 am
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Posted 05/04/2026   10:11 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add landoquakes to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
This is one of those stamps that are going to be hard to find postally used!
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Posted 05/05/2026   1:08 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Christopherjohn to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
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.
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Edited by Christopherjohn - 05/05/2026 1:22 pm
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Posted 05/05/2026   2:16 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Partime to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
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.
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Posted Today  2 Hrs 20 Min ago  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stampsOnMail to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
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?)
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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.
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