1968-1971 Six Cent Commemorative issues
Including definitives and other issues from the six cent era.
1968 issues
Scott
1338, 6¢ Flag Over White House,
plate number 30116
Scott
1338 var, 6¢ Flag Over White House, double
impression, plate number 31341
Scott
1338 var, 6¢ Flag, imperforate vertically
in selvage,
plate number 31476
Scott
1338 var, 6¢ Flag, tagging ghost,
plate number 29657
Scott
1338 var, 6¢ Flag, misperfed vertically, captured plate number 29619
Scott
1338 var, 6¢ Flag, misperfed horizontally, captured plate number 30804
Scott
1338 var, 6¢ Flag, misperfed vertically and horizontally, captured plate number 30088
Scott
1338 var, 6¢ Flag, misperfed due to foldover, plate number 30816
Scott
1338D, 6¢ Flag,
plate number 32093
Scott
1338D var, 6¢ Flag, local precancel, plate number 32191
Scott
1338De, imperf vertically between error, plate number 31885
Scott
1339, 6¢ Illinois Statehood,
plate number 29571
Scott
1339 var, 6¢ Illinois, orange shifted righ, plate number 29560
Scott
1339 var, 6¢ Illinois, orange shifted right and blue ink smear, plate number 29576
Scott
1340, 6¢ Hemisfair,
plate number 29742
Scott
1340 var, engraved blue (p#) and engraved white (lines) shifted right, missing 6¢, plate number 29731
Scott
1340 var, engraved blue (p#) and engraved white (lines) shifted up, plate number 29751 (Image courtesy of eBay / sheetguy2)
Scott
1340 var, 6¢ Hemisfair, misperfed horizontally, plate number 29753
Scott
1341, $1 Airlift for Servicemen,
plate number 29766
Some collectors consider this an airmail stamp.
Scott
1341 var, local precance1, plate number 29779
Scott
1342, 6¢ Support Our Youth,
plate number 29814
Scott
1343, 6¢ Law and Order,
plate number 29839
Scott
1344, 6¢ Register and Vote,
plate number 29786
Scott
1344, 6¢ Register and Vote, gold shifted to right, plate number 29996. Image courtesy of Stuart Katz.
Scott
1345, 6¢ Fort Moultrie Flag, from
Revolutionary Flags strip of
10 (Scott 1354a),
plate number 30311
Scott
1345 var, misperfed vertically,
plate number 30311
Scott
1345 var, misperfed horizontally and vertically, plate number 30085 (Image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
Elsewhere on the misperfed pane, both the red and yellow colors were shifted as well.
Scott
1345 var, untagged error, from Scott 1354d, plate number 30085
Scott
1355, 6¢ Walt Disney, plate numbers 30006/08/12, both with and without hyphens
Scott
1355 var, 6¢ Walt Disney, misperfed horizontally, plate numbers 30006/08/12 (Image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
Scott
1355a, ochre omitted error ("Walt Disney", "6¢"), plate numbers 30006/08/12 (Image courtesy of The Philadelic Foundation)
Scott
1355d, black omitted error (jacket, mustache, plate number 30008), plate numbers 30006/12 (Image courtesy of Jack Nalbandian)
Scott
1355f, blue omitted error (globe, jacket, characters, plate number 30006), plate numbers 30008/12 (Image courtesy of Jack Nalbandian)
Scott
1355b, imperforate horizontally error, plate numbers 30006/08/12 (Image courtesy of The Philadelic Foundation)
Scott
1356, 6¢ Marquette,
plate number 30147
Scott
1356 var, 6¢ Marquette, local precancel, plate number 30124
Scott
1356 var, 6¢ Marquette, black shifted down, plate number 30123
Scott
1356 var, brown shifted up ("floating hands" variety) plate number 30123
Scott
1356 var, brown shifted left ("missing faces" variety), plate number 30123
Scott
1356 var, misperfed vertically, plate number 30120 (Image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
Scott
1356 var, 6¢ misperfed due to foldover, plate number 30124
Scott
1357, 6¢ Daniel Boone,
plate number 30341
Scott
1358, 6¢ Arkansas River Navigation,
plate number 30337
Scott
1358 var, misperfed due to foldover, plate number 30326 (Image courtesy of eBay / stuffpreserve)
Scott
1359, 6¢ Leif Erikson,
plate number 30445
Scott
1359 var, misperfed horizontally, plate number 30445 (Image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
Scott
1359 var, 6¢ Leif Erikson, reverse image on back of stamp, plate number 30458
Scott
1360, 6¢ Cherokee Strip,
plate number 30372
Scott
1360 var, 6¢ Cherokee Strip, local precancel, plate number 30389
Scott
1361, 6¢ John Trumbull,
plate number 30406
Scott
1361 var, misperfed vertically, plate number 30392 (Image courtesy of eBay / sheetguy2)
Scott
1361 var, 6¢ John Trumbull,
misperfed horizontally, plate number 30383
Scott
1361 var, brown shifted to right, plate number 30383 (Image courtesy of eBay / sheetguy2)
Scott
1362, 6¢ Wildlife Conservation,
plate number 30351
Scott
1362 var, local precancel, plate number 30350
Scott
1362 var, 6¢ Wildlife Conservation, misperfed vertically, plate number 30370
Scott
1362 var, misperfed and only half tagged due to foldover, plate number 30358
Scott
1363, 6¢ Van Eyck Madonna, Christmas 1968,
plate numbers 30285 and 29870
Scott
1363 var, local precancel,
plate numbers 30022 and 30068
Scott
1363 var, unusual "lacquer" as if yellowed taggant, plate number 30103
Scott
1363a, 6¢ Van Eyck Madonna, untagged error, plate number 30178
Scott
1363a, imperforate error, plate numbers 30161 and 29986
Scott
1363c, 6¢ Madonna, light yellow omitted
error, plate number 29908
Not only
is the color omitted from the image, but the gold plate number that is
always paired with the black plate number is missing in the selvage.
Scott
1363d, imperforate and untagged error, number 30194
1969 issues
Scott
1364, 6¢ Chief Joseph,
plate number 30481
Scott
1364 var, 6¢ Chief Joseph,
yellow color shift to right, plate number 30499
Scott
1365, Beautify Cities; Scott
1366, Beautify Parks;
Scott
1367, Beautify Highways; Scott
1368, Beautify Streets; from
6¢ Beautification issue (Scott 1368a)
Scott
1366 var, 6¢ Beautify Parks, blue shifted left and to the top, plate number 30626 (Image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
Scott
1366 var, 6¢ Beautify Parks, blue shifted down and to the right, plate number 30627
Scott
1369, 6¢ American Legion,
plate number 30769
Scott
1369 var, 6¢ American Legion, plate number 30790 printed over the top of plate number
30825
Scott
1369 var, misperfed horizontally at top, plate number
30759 (Image courtesy of eBay / CK Stamps)
Scott
1370, 6¢ Grandma Moses,
plate number 30886
Scott
1370b, 6¢ Grandma Moses, engraved black and Prussian blue omitted error, plate number 00000
Scott
1371, 6¢ Apollo 8,
plate number 30931
Scott
1371 var, local precancel, plate number 30932
Scott
1371 var, 6¢ Apollo 8, orange shifted right, misperfed vertically, plate number 30923
Scott
1371 var, imperforate error, determined by Scott to be printer's waste, plate number 30932
Scott
1372, 6¢ W. C. Handy,
plate number 30707
Scott
1372 var, 6¢ W. C. Handy, purple shifted down, plate number 30735
Scott
1372 var, 6¢ W. C. Handy, purple shifted down and right, plate number 30732
Scott
1372 var, 6¢ W. C. Handy, misperfed horizontally, plate number 30725
Scott
1372 var, 6¢ W. C. Handy, miscut due to paper fold, plate number 30744
Scott
1373, 6¢ California Settlement,
plate number 31262
Scott
1373 var, engraved red and black shifted right, plate number 31095
Scott
1373 var, engraved red and black shifted down and right, plate number 31124 (Image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
Scott
1373 var, 6¢ California Settlement,
misperfed horizontally, plate number 31016
Scott
1373 var, 6¢ California Settlement, ink smear, plate number 31078
Scott
1374, 6¢ John Wesley Powell,
plate number 31202
Scott
1374 var, orange shifted left, plate number 31189
Scott
1374 var, misperfed vertically, plate number 31174
Scott
1375, 6¢ Alabama Statehood,
plate number 31275
Scott
1375 var, local precancel, plate number 31288
Scott
1375 var, yellow shifted right, plate number 31275
Scott
1375 var, misperfed vertically, plate number 31288
Scott
1375 var, yellow shifted left, misperfed vertically, plate number 31277
Scott
1375 var, yellow shifted up, misperfed horizontally, plate number 31291
Scott
1375 var, "red missing from rose" fake altered by light or chemical, plate number 31276
Scott
1376, Conifer (Northwest); Scott
1377, Ladyslipper (Northeast);
Scott
1378, Southwestern plant; Scott
1379, Dogwood (Southeast); from 6¢ International
Botanical Congress (Scott 1379a)
Scott
1376 var, local precancel, plate number 30993
Scott
1376 var, miscut due to paper fold, plate number 30973
Scott
1377 var, misperfed vertically, plate number 30973
Scott
1378 var, yellow shifted down, plate number 30977
Scott
1379 var, yellow shifted right, plate number 30996
Scott
1379 var, miscut due to paper fold, plate number 30996
Scott
1380, 6¢ Dartmouth College, Daniel Webster,
plate number 31079
Scott
1381, 6¢ Professional Baseball,
plate number 31409
Scott
1381 var, doubled engraved black (wording, p#), plate number 31399
Scott
1381 var, engraved black ink smear (wording, 6¢, p#), plate number 31414
Scott
1381 var, 6¢ red and black shifted down, plate number 31410
Scott
1381 var, 6¢ Baseball, red, green and yellow shifted left, plate number 31399
Scott
1381 var, engraved black (words, plate number) shifted right, plate number 31407
Scott
1381 var, engraved black (words, plate number) shifted down, plate number 31404
Scott
1381 var, 6¢ Baseball,
misperfed horizontally, plate number 31409
Scott
1381 var, 6¢ Baseball, misperfed vertically, plate number 31414
Scott
1381 var, miscut due to paper fold, plate number 31399
Scott
1381 var, black ink offsed on back (on the paper, below the gum), plate number 31399 (Image courtesy of Bill Langs)
Scott
1382, 6¢ Intercollegiate Football,
plate number 31403
Scott
1382 var, double impression of red, plate numbers 31386 and 31391 (Image courtesy of The Philatelic Foundation)
Scott
1382 var, 6¢ Football, green shifted up, plate number 31403
Scott
1382 var, 6¢ Football, red shifted up, plate number 31406
Scott
1382 var, 6¢ Football, misperfed vertically, plate number 31408
Scott
1382 var, 6¢ Football, misperfed horizontally, plate number 31389
Scott
1382 var, 6¢ Football, local precancel, plate number 31398
It is unlikely that the small town of Dallas, North Carolina required or ordered local precancels. This example was likely created later for collectors.
Scott
1383, 6¢ Eisenhower,
plate number 31433
Scott
1383 var, 6¢ Eisenhower, misperfed horizontally, plate number 31432
Scott
1383 var, 6¢ Eisenhower,
misperf caused by foldover, plate number 31433
Scott
1384, 6¢ Christmas 1969,
plate number 31024
Scott
1384b, imperforate error, plate number 31177 (Image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
Scott
1384 var, red error plate number 3105 (should be
31035) with green plate number 31036
Scott
1384 var, "Small M"
in mAIL, also red (horses, chimneys) shifted to right, plate number 31237
Scott
1384 var, 6¢ Christmas 1969, misperfed vertically, plate number 31163
Scott
1384 var, 6¢ Christmas 1969, Atlanta precancel, plate number 31121
Scott
1384 var, 6¢ Christmas 1969, high Baltimore precancel, plate number 31180
Scott
1384 var, 6¢ Christmas 1969, high New Haven precancel, plate number 31187
Scott
1384 var, 6¢ Christmas 1969, high Memphis precancel, plate number 31149
Scott
1384 var, 6¢ Christmas 1969, low Atlanta precancel, plate number 31226
Scott
1384 var, misprinted Baltimore precancel, plate number 31229
Scott
1384 var, Atlanta precancel printed on back due to paper fold, plate number 31098
Scott
1384m, 6¢ Christmas 1969, inverted
Baltimore precancel, plate number 31194
Scott
1384 var, local precancel (Dayton, Ohio was not one of the four "official" precancel cities), plate number 31042
Scott
1384 var, red (horses, chimneys) shifted to right, plate number 31146
Scott
1384c, 6¢ Christmas 1969, light green omitted error, plate number 31084
Scott
1384d, light green, red and yellow omitted error, plate number 31117 (Image courtesy of Bill Langs)
Scott
1385, 6¢ Crippled Children,
plate number 31464
Scott
1386, 6¢ William M. Harnett,
plate number 31511
Scott
1386 var, "tagging ghost" showing plate number 31511 over
31509
Scott
1386 var, misperfed horizontally, plate number 31489
Scott
1386 var, miscut due to paper fold, plate number 31488
1970 issues
Scott
1387, American Bald Eagle; Scott
1388, African Elephants;
Scott
1389, Haida Ceremonial Canoe; Scott
1390, Age of Reptiles; from Natural
History issue, Scott 1390a
Scott
1387 var, 6¢ Eagle, plate number 31702 showing ink smear
Scott
1387 var, 6¢ Eagle, plate number 31736 with ghost plate number
Scott
1387 var, 6¢ Eagle, misperfed horizontally, plate number 31720
Scott
1387 var, 6¢ Eagle, black shifted up, plate number 31711 (Image courtesy of eBay / sheetguy2)
Scott
1388 var, 6¢ Elephants, shift due to paper fold, plate number 31736 (Image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
Scott
1388 var, orange shift to bottom, black shift to left, plate number 31711
Scott
1389 var, 6¢ Canoe, yellow
shift to bottom, plate number 31862
Scott
1390 var, 6¢ Reptiles, black shifted down, plate number 31790
Scott
1390 var, blue shifted right, tagging ghost with plate number 31711 over 31720
Scott
1391, 6¢ Maine statehood,
plate number 31983
Scott
1391 var, misperfed vertically, plate number 31969 (Image courtesy of eBay / sheetguy2)
Scott
1391 var, red and blue shift, most visible in the lighthouse, plate number 31983
Scott
1391 var, black shift up, most visible in the house, plate number 31951
Scott
1391 var, black shift left and down, plate number 31951 over ghost plate number 31963
Scott
1392, 6¢ Wildlife Conservation,
plate number 31977
Scott
1393, 6¢ Eisenhower, plate number 31928
Scott
1393 var, 6¢ Eisenhower, dull gum, plate number 32007
Scott
1393 var, misperfed horizontally, plate numbers 31920 and 31919
(Images courtesy of Stuart Katz and eBay / sheetguy2)
Scott
1393c, 6¢ Eisenhower, untagged Bureau precancel, plate number 31947
Plate number examples of the 7¢ Franklin, 14¢ LaGuardia, 16¢ Ernie Pyle, 18¢ Elizabeth Blackwell and 21¢ Gianinni stamps (Scott 1393D, 1397, 1398, 1399 and 1400) appear with the Prominent Americans issues.
Plate number examples of the 8¢ Eisenhower sheet, booklet and coil stamps (Scott 1394, 1395 and 1402) as well as the 8¢ U.S. Postal Service stamp (Scott 1396) appear with the 8¢ Commemorative issues.
Scott
1405, 6¢ Edgar Lee Masters,
plate number 31701
Scott
1405 var, gold misprinted due to paper fold, plate number 31694
Scott
1405 var, 6¢ Edgar Lee Masters, miscut due to foldover, plate number 31685
Scott
1405 var, misperfed and miscut, plate number 31701
Scott
1406, 6¢ Woman Suffrage,
plate number 32155
Scott
1406 var, 6¢ Woman Suffrage, misperfed vertically, plate number 32162
Scott
1407, 6¢ South Carolina Settlement,
plate number 32012
Scott
1407 var, 6¢ South Carolina, all colors shifted up,
plate numbers 32047 and 32052
Scott
1407 var, miscut due to paper fold, plate number 32012
Scott
1408, 6¢ Stone Mountain Memorial,
plate number 32246
Scott
1408 var, local precancel, plate number 32263
Scott
1408, 6¢ Stone Mountain,
misperfed horizontally, captured plate numbers 32261 and 32262
Scott
1409, 6¢ Fort Snelling,
plate number 32311
Scott
1409 var, brown shifted up (boat, fort roof), plate number 32302
Scott
1409 var, green and engraved black shifted to right, plate number 32331 (Image courtesy of eBay / sheetguy2)
Scott
1409 var, tagging ghost, plate number 32331 over 32327
Scott
1409 var, 6¢ Fort Snelling, misperfed horizontally, plate number 32302
Scott
1410, Save Soil; Scott 1411, Save Cities
Scott
1412, Save Water; Scott
1413, Save Air; from 6¢ Pollution issue (Scott 1413a)
Scott
1413 var, fake local precancel, plate number 32282
Clues:
-
Local precancels were generally only authorized for definitive size stamps
- Yucca Valley only had 3900 residents in the 1970 census. The town had no major industries or other legitimate need for precancels
- The quality
appears to be more typical of a rubber handstamp applied manually to a single stamp, rather than of an overprint-type mat with high quality ink applied in a grid to a block of stamps by a professional printer
- No example is known on cover. The precancellations appear
to have been applied long after any possible contemporary usage
- The stamp was offered along with a number of other identical suspicious local precancels
on stamps spanning a quarter century2
Scott
1414, 6¢ Christmas 1970, Type I with snowflakes,
plate number 31950
Scott
1414 var, 6¢ Xmas 1970 Type I, fake local precancel, plate number 31951
Clues:
-
Local precancels were generally only authorized for definitive size stamps
- Gazelle, California only has a population of 70 today. Records from the 1970 census were not found. The town had no major industries or other legitimate need for precancels
- The quality
appears to be more typical of a rubber handstamp applied manually to a single stamp, rather than of an overprint-type mat with high quality ink applied in a grid to a block of stamps by a professional printer
- No example is known on cover. The precancellations appear
to have been applied long after any possible contemporary usage
- The stamp was offered along with a number of other identical suspicious local precancels
on stamps spanning a quarter century
Scott
1414a, 6¢ Christmas 1970,
Type I with snowflakes, precanceled, plate number 31943
Scott
1414c, 6¢ Christmas precancel, strip of
4, blue omitted error. The left stamp, with plate number 32154, is
normal. The blue ink runs out (or is otherwise not printed) partway through
the second stamp, which is missing the blue plate number 31945. The
two right stamps, with plate numbers 31944 and 31943, are missing the blue
entirely. Image courtesy of Stuart Katz.
Scott
1415, Locomotive; Scott 1416, Horse
Scott 1417, Tricycle; Scott 1418, Carriage; from
6¢ Christmas Toys block of 4 (Scott 1418b)
Scott
1415a, Locomotive precancel; Scott 1416a, Horse precancel
Scott 1417a, Tricycle precancel; Scott 1418a, Carriage precancel
from
6¢ precanceled Christmas Toys block of 4 (Scott 1418c)
Scott
1415a var, 6¢ precanceled Train, misperfed vertically, captured plate number 31901
Scott
1416 var, local precancel, plate number 31907
Scott
1416 var, misperfed horizontally, plate number 31901
Scott
1416 var, with gum breaker ridges, plate number 31900
Scott
1416a var, precanceled, with gum breaker ridges, plate number 31904 (Image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
Scott
1416a var, precanceled, also used, captured plate number 31902
Scott
1416b, black omitted error (Christmas, U.S.), plate number 31904 (Image courtesy of Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries)
Scott
1417 var, 6¢ Tricycle, brown shifted down (double wheels, high hat), plate number 31900 (Image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
Scott
1417a var, precanceled, misperfed vertically, captured plate number 31900
Scott
1418 var, local precancel, plate number 32147
Scott
1418 var, with gum breaker ridges, plate number 31901
Scott
1418 var, black underinked, from Scott 1418g (black omitted), plate number 31905 (Image courtesy of Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries)
Scott
1418 var, misperfed horizontally, plate number 31900
Scott
1418a var, precanceled, with gum breaker ridges, plate number 31905 (Image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
Scott
1419, 6¢ United Nations,
plate number 32300
Scott
1419 var, 6¢ UN, black shifted right, plate number 32299
Scott
1419 var, 6¢ UN, misperfed horizontally, plate number 32300
Scott
1419a, tagging omitted error, plate number 32303
Scott
1420, 6¢ Landing of Pilgrims,
plate number 32286
Scott
1420 var, misperfed vertically, plate number 32286 (Image courtesy of Stuart Katz)
Scott
1420 var, misperfed vertically, captured plate number 32279 (Image courtesy of eBay / sheetguy2)
Scott
1420 var, 6¢ Pilgrims, blue and red shifted right, plate number 32271
Scott
1421, Disabled American Veterans; and Scott
1422, 6¢ POW / MIA
from the 6¢ pair, Scott 1421a
Scott
1421 var, 6¢ DAV, two examples of double printing caused by
tagging setoff
Left:
printed and setoff plate number 32435
Right: printed plate number 32435, setoff plate number 32436
Scott
1422 var, 6¢ POW, tagging ghost, plate number 32441 (over 32442)
1971 issues
Scott
1423, 6¢ America's Wool,
plate number 32516
Scott
1423 var, 6¢ America's Wool, orange shifted to left, plate number 32541
Scott
1424, 6¢ General Douglas MacArthur,
plate number 32307
Scott
1424 var, 6¢ MacArthur, misperfed horizontally, plate number 32347
Scott
1424 var, 6¢ MacArthur, misperfed vertically, plate number 32340 (Image courtesy of eBay / CK Stamps)
Scott
1425, 6¢ Blood Donors,
plate number 32687
Scott
1425 var, 6¢ Blood Donors, tagging ghost,
plate number 32617 over 32632
Scott
1425 var, 6¢ Blood Donors, miscut due to paper fold, plate number 32603
Scott 1425 was the last 6¢ commemorative issued before the rate hike to
8¢. However, several 6¢ commemoratives were issued during the 8¢
period, as this met the postal card rate. These include the 6¢ Wolf
Trap Farm stamp from the National Parks set (Scott 1452), the 6¢ 1972
Summer Olympics - Cycling stamp (Scott 1460), and the 6¢ Electronics stamp (Scott
1500). Plate number singles of these 6¢ stamps appear with the 8¢ commemoratives.
Related links:
5¢ Commemoratives
The Prominent Americans series
8¢ Commemoratives
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