The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-10-26
PUT TEDDY'S FACE
ON SCENT STAMP
NEW POSTAGE ISSUE WILL IN
CLUDE PORTRAITS OF HAYES
AND CLEVELAND
Latest Series to Have Fl Values,
Ranging from Penny Variety up to
Five Dollars; Complete Set Worth
$1O.32; Great Rush Will be Made
by Collectors for First Stamps.

w SOAACCNO10 lOI IASO OL1llPSs
With the announcement a wee
: ago that the United States had pre-
pared a new set OF postage stamps, c
which two values will be placed o
sale this month, interest in the chea
new Europe issues, which have bee.
appearing almost at weekly inter
walls for the past three years, ha
fallen off. Every collector, from tn
youngest school boy to those sena
tors of the United States who ranl
high in philatelic circles, will be Gag
er to get copies from the earlies
sheets put on sale for, as frequentl,
happens, minor changes in color, de
sign or p~erforations might be made
in the near future and, in that case
the first impressions would imme
diately be enhanced in value.
The collecting of United States
stamps, beginning with the first gov.
eminent issue in 1847, has been pur-
sued SO keenly here and abroad that
the bringing out of a new set is an
event of more than ordinary inter
est. Thousands Of the new stamps
will be quickly purchased, never to be
used, and conservative estimates by
dealers last week indicated that the
nnct nffioo aportp,a- rr;1J -~oe.x
financially by several hundreds of
thousands of dollars in the sale of
stamps which will never be redeemed
or ever used for postage.
The new set will be the largest in
number I'VE issued in this country
for letter postage. The series will
contain Fl stamps, ranging in value
from l cent to IS, and the face value
of the complete set will be $1O.32.
OF the ten presidents whose portraits
will appear on different denomina-
lions, three will be seen on United
States stamps for the first time,
Roosevelt on the 5 cent stamp, Hayes
on the IL cent variety and Cleveland
on the II cent value.
On Sale on RooseveIt's Anniversary
The 5 and IL cent stamps are an
nounced for sale this month, Oct. 27
being the first day when the Roose-
stamps may be purchased, that
being the anniversary of his birth.
The portrait stamps will end with
the IL cent Cleveland stamps. The
nine higher values, beginning with
IA cents, will contain various ma
tional scenes and ~allegorical designs.
On the IA cent will be a picture of
American Indian; the Is cent
have a view of the Statue of
Liberty; 20 cent, Yosemite; rs cent,
Niagara; 80 cent, Buffalo; so cent,
Arlington amphitheater and tomb
the unknown soldier; 81, Lincoln
Memorial at Washington; So, the
Capitol at Washington; and SIS,
American. The unknown soldier
stamp will be put on sale Nov. IL,
concentrating the fourth anniver-
of the armistice.
Franklin, the nations first post
master general, whose portrait was
placed on the 1 cent stamp in 1851
remained continuously on that
denomination until 1912, has prop
'rly been restored to his old posi-
ion, with Washington on the 2 cent
lamp where he has been for many
ears. The other portraits are: 8
ent, Lincoln; 4 cent, Martha Wash
5 cent, Roosevelt; 6 cent,
fairfield; Z cent, Mckinley; 8 cent,
arant; 9 cent, Jefferson; 10 cent,
1onroe; IL cent, Hayes and IL cent,
Martha Washington's Portrait
Martha Washington is the only
noteworthy woman of our national
history whose portrait has ever ap-
cared on a stamp. Her face graced
he very artistic 1902 issue on the
'-cent value, but she disappeared
rom sight so far as letter postage
concerned in 1908 whensthe two
'ortrait designs of Franklin and
were adopted. No other
ortraits have been used on any of
ur regular issues since that year,
nd, although the designs are neat,
heir sameness has made the United
tates series somewhat monOtonous.
'ortraits of Lincoln and Seward
7ere placed on the commemorative
of 1909, but they were only in
Sc for a comparatively short time,
former being on the 2-cent stamp
in the centennial year of his 1
irth and Seward on the 2-cent stamp
commemorative of the A1aska-Yukon
Uniform rates of postage were
rst provided for by the United
government in 1916, but 1t
as two years later before the first
fficial stamp issue was made. In
le intervening years about a dozen
ostmasters In as many cities and
WINS issued stamps on their own
and most of these are now (
ltremely rare. Arthur Hind, the !
xtile manufacturer of Utica, paid, (
the Ferrari sale early in the year,
bout $4,000 for the only known