ISSUE 160 - April 5, 2024 - Stamp News Online Magazine
Yesterday in U.S. Stamp News
Perforating the Prexies
by Richard Pederson
This is the first of a series of columns on the Presidential issue of 1938, commonly called the Prexies, that I will be writing for U.S. Stamp News. I intend to cover both the stamps and their postal history.
The Prexies are the fifth definitive series of stamps printed by the U.S. Bureau of Printing and Engraving. They were a long-running series with some of the stamps having in-period uses running from 1938 until the last delivery of stamps to post offices in 1960. The series included 32 face different stamps picturing each U.S. President up through William McKinley along with . . .
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