1938 3c Thomas Jefferson, bklt pane
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U.S. #BK102
1938 3¢ Thomas Jefferson
Presidential Series
Booklet
- Get a COMPLETE booklet of 18 1938 3¢ Thomas Jefferson Stamps
- Booklet of US #807a
Stamp Category: Definitive
Series: Presidential Series
Value: 3¢; first-class rate
First Day of Issue: January 27, 1939
First Day City: Washington, DC
Printed by: Bureau of Engraving & Printing
Printing Method: Rotary Press
Format: Booklet panes of 6 in booklets of 18
Perforations: 11 x 10.5
Color: violet
Why the stamp was issued: To provide convenient booklets of the first-class rate stamp. Paying that rate, it was the most commonly used and familiar of the Prexie stamps.
About the stamp design: The profile of Jefferson on this stamp was based on a bust located in the Congressional Library.
Special design details: This stamp was also issued in sheets of 100 (#807) and coils (#842 and #851). It was also sold in booklets with four panes instead of three (#BK101).
About the Presidential Series (Prexies): President Franklin D. Roosevelt first suggested a stamp series honoring all the deceased presidents in 1933. The new series of defiitives would replace the Series of 1922, which had been in use for 12 years.
The stamp designs were selected through a national competition. Of the more than 1,100 entrants, Elaine Rawlinson of New York City was the winning designer. Her design showed Washington in profile based on a bust by noted sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon. This first stamp was issued on April 25, 1938.
The rest of the stamps in the series featured similar profiles based on sculptures, paintings, and bronze statues. Each president’s bust was accompanied by his name and dates in office. Additionally, the 1¢ through 22¢ stamps each have a denomination corresponding to the man’s presidency. McKinley (the 25th president) was honored on the 25¢ stamp. After that, the stamps had higher values that filled important postal needs.
The Prexies featured the portraits of 29 presidents, 12 of whom had never appeared on a US postage stamp before. The series also included four denominations that had never been used on US postage stamps before – 18¢, 19¢, 21¢, and 22¢. These values were only included to follow the presidential succession format and didn’t meet any postal rates at the time. A few stamps in the series also pictured non-presidents, including Benjamin Franklin, Martha Washington, and the White House.
All of the presidents after Washington were issued in order throughout 1938. Several coil stamps and booklets were issued in January 1939. The Prexies, as they were nicknamed by collectors, remained in use for over 18 years. During that time there were several color varieties and interesting errors.
History the stamp represents: Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, in Shadwell, Colony of Virginia.
Jefferson was the third of ten children in a prosperous family, permitting him to receive private tutoring at the age of five. He was an excellent student and gifted violinist who enjoyed dancing and horseback riding. Jefferson went on to graduate from the College of William & Mary with highest honors and began to study law. Jefferson was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1767.
At the age of 25, Jefferson was elected to Virginia’s House of Burgesses. He emerged as a passionate author who other officials turned to when they needed assistance expressing complex issues. As rebellion swept the New England states, Britain dissolved the House of Burgesses. Its former members, including Jefferson and George Washington, continued to meet secretly to organize a protest against British plans to deport colonists to England for trial.
A convention was called to develop a plan of action for Virginians, and Jefferson was elected to be a delegate. In response, Jefferson wrote A Summary View of the Rights of British America, a powerful presentation of Colonial terms for a settlement with Britain that sparked the independence movement. Jefferson soon became known as one of the most eloquent spokesmen of the patriotic movement.
Jefferson served as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in 1775. The following year, he was appointed to the Committee of Five, a group given the task of writing the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson was unanimously chosen to draft the document, which was adopted almost exactly as originally written and officially issued on July 4, 1776.
In September of 1776, Jefferson resigned from the Continental Congress and was elected to the new Virginia House of Delegates. He helped reform and update the new democratic state’s laws. Jefferson’s idea of limited restrictions on individual rights, voting rights for small landowners, religious freedom, and separation of church and state were adopted.
As he guided Colonial Virginia through its transition to a democratic state, Jefferson built an estate named Monticello on the property his father had left him. He introduced the first olive trees in North America and experimented with orange trees. Jefferson’s innovations included a swivel chair, a dumbwaiter that transported food from the basement kitchen to the ground-floor dining room by use of a series of pulleys, and a duplicating machine. Following a brief term as governor of Virginia, Jefferson served as U.S. minister to France until the end of the Revolutionary War.
Upon his return to the United States, Jefferson served as the first secretary of state. Appointed by George Washington, Jefferson disagreed sharply with Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton’s national fiscal policy. The primary debate was over funding the Revolutionary War debt. Hamilton believed the debt should be divided equally among the states. Jefferson, a firm advocate of states’ rights, believed that each state should be responsible for the debt it alone had incurred. Their disagreement led to further divisions in the new government, with Hamilton’s Federalists on one side and Jefferson’s Democratic-Republican Party on the other.
As secretary of state, Jefferson supported France in its war with England. In 1793, he returned to Monticello and began working with James Madison to undermine Hamilton’s influence. Jefferson lost the 1796 presidential election to the Federalist candidate, John Adams. However, he had enough electoral votes to be elected Vice President.
Four years later, the Federalists lost the presidency and control of Congress. Jefferson defeated John Adams and received enough electoral votes to tie with Aaron Burr. The tie for first place in the election was to be resolved by the House of Representatives, which was controlled by the Federalists. After deadlocking in 35 ballots, the House of Representatives chose Jefferson by a margin of ten to four.
Fearful that the U.S. might lose navigational rights along the Mississippi, President Thomas Jefferson sent James Monroe and Robert R. Livingston to Paris to negotiate the purchase of New Orleans and its immediate surrounding area. The U.S. was prepared to pay $10 million for the Louisiana parcel. Jefferson anticipated resistance to his proposal. However, war between France and England seemed inevitable in 1803, and the Louisiana Territory was a distraction for France. To focus his resources on the war, Napoleon Bonaparte offered the entire territory of 530 million acres to the United States for $15 million.
The purchase was the government’s largest financial transaction to date, and it doubled the size of the United States at a cost of less than 3¢ per acre. Control of the Mississippi River and the port of New Orleans provided a convenient method of transportation necessary for the development of the new region. The acquisition also distanced France, a potential enemy, from the young nation.
Jefferson replaced his Vice President Aaron Burr with New York Governor George Clinton and easily won re-election in 1804. Once extremely popular, a series of actions caused public disapproval throughout Jefferson’s second term. Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel before fleeing west. When Burr was placed on trial for treason, Jefferson’s zealous campaign for the conviction of his former Vice President alienated many observers. At the same time, England and France were at war, and each nation prohibited any other nation from trading with their opponent. Jefferson responded with the Embargo Act, a move that banned trade with the two warring nations. Rather than punish England and France, the Embargo Act severely damaged U.S. commerce and Jefferson’s popularity.
Jefferson returned to his beloved Monticello and resumed his habit of meticulously documenting every facet of Monticello’s daily operations. During the last years of his life, Jefferson renewed his friendship with John Adams. Many of the letters survive today, giving modern historians a glimpse into the thoughts of two of the nation’s most gifted founders. Exactly 50 years after the Declaration of Independence was issued, Jefferson and Adams passed away.
U.S. #BK102
1938 3¢ Thomas Jefferson
Presidential Series
Booklet
- Get a COMPLETE booklet of 18 1938 3¢ Thomas Jefferson Stamps
- Booklet of US #807a
Stamp Category: Definitive
Series: Presidential Series
Value: 3¢; first-class rate
First Day of Issue: January 27, 1939
First Day City: Washington, DC
Printed by: Bureau of Engraving & Printing
Printing Method: Rotary Press
Format: Booklet panes of 6 in booklets of 18
Perforations: 11 x 10.5
Color: violet
Why the stamp was issued: To provide convenient booklets of the first-class rate stamp. Paying that rate, it was the most commonly used and familiar of the Prexie stamps.
About the stamp design: The profile of Jefferson on this stamp was based on a bust located in the Congressional Library.
Special design details: This stamp was also issued in sheets of 100 (#807) and coils (#842 and #851). It was also sold in booklets with four panes instead of three (#BK101).
About the Presidential Series (Prexies): President Franklin D. Roosevelt first suggested a stamp series honoring all the deceased presidents in 1933. The new series of defiitives would replace the Series of 1922, which had been in use for 12 years.
The stamp designs were selected through a national competition. Of the more than 1,100 entrants, Elaine Rawlinson of New York City was the winning designer. Her design showed Washington in profile based on a bust by noted sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon. This first stamp was issued on April 25, 1938.
The rest of the stamps in the series featured similar profiles based on sculptures, paintings, and bronze statues. Each president’s bust was accompanied by his name and dates in office. Additionally, the 1¢ through 22¢ stamps each have a denomination corresponding to the man’s presidency. McKinley (the 25th president) was honored on the 25¢ stamp. After that, the stamps had higher values that filled important postal needs.
The Prexies featured the portraits of 29 presidents, 12 of whom had never appeared on a US postage stamp before. The series also included four denominations that had never been used on US postage stamps before – 18¢, 19¢, 21¢, and 22¢. These values were only included to follow the presidential succession format and didn’t meet any postal rates at the time. A few stamps in the series also pictured non-presidents, including Benjamin Franklin, Martha Washington, and the White House.
All of the presidents after Washington were issued in order throughout 1938. Several coil stamps and booklets were issued in January 1939. The Prexies, as they were nicknamed by collectors, remained in use for over 18 years. During that time there were several color varieties and interesting errors.
History the stamp represents: Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, in Shadwell, Colony of Virginia.
Jefferson was the third of ten children in a prosperous family, permitting him to receive private tutoring at the age of five. He was an excellent student and gifted violinist who enjoyed dancing and horseback riding. Jefferson went on to graduate from the College of William & Mary with highest honors and began to study law. Jefferson was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1767.
At the age of 25, Jefferson was elected to Virginia’s House of Burgesses. He emerged as a passionate author who other officials turned to when they needed assistance expressing complex issues. As rebellion swept the New England states, Britain dissolved the House of Burgesses. Its former members, including Jefferson and George Washington, continued to meet secretly to organize a protest against British plans to deport colonists to England for trial.
A convention was called to develop a plan of action for Virginians, and Jefferson was elected to be a delegate. In response, Jefferson wrote A Summary View of the Rights of British America, a powerful presentation of Colonial terms for a settlement with Britain that sparked the independence movement. Jefferson soon became known as one of the most eloquent spokesmen of the patriotic movement.
Jefferson served as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in 1775. The following year, he was appointed to the Committee of Five, a group given the task of writing the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson was unanimously chosen to draft the document, which was adopted almost exactly as originally written and officially issued on July 4, 1776.
In September of 1776, Jefferson resigned from the Continental Congress and was elected to the new Virginia House of Delegates. He helped reform and update the new democratic state’s laws. Jefferson’s idea of limited restrictions on individual rights, voting rights for small landowners, religious freedom, and separation of church and state were adopted.
As he guided Colonial Virginia through its transition to a democratic state, Jefferson built an estate named Monticello on the property his father had left him. He introduced the first olive trees in North America and experimented with orange trees. Jefferson’s innovations included a swivel chair, a dumbwaiter that transported food from the basement kitchen to the ground-floor dining room by use of a series of pulleys, and a duplicating machine. Following a brief term as governor of Virginia, Jefferson served as U.S. minister to France until the end of the Revolutionary War.
Upon his return to the United States, Jefferson served as the first secretary of state. Appointed by George Washington, Jefferson disagreed sharply with Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton’s national fiscal policy. The primary debate was over funding the Revolutionary War debt. Hamilton believed the debt should be divided equally among the states. Jefferson, a firm advocate of states’ rights, believed that each state should be responsible for the debt it alone had incurred. Their disagreement led to further divisions in the new government, with Hamilton’s Federalists on one side and Jefferson’s Democratic-Republican Party on the other.
As secretary of state, Jefferson supported France in its war with England. In 1793, he returned to Monticello and began working with James Madison to undermine Hamilton’s influence. Jefferson lost the 1796 presidential election to the Federalist candidate, John Adams. However, he had enough electoral votes to be elected Vice President.
Four years later, the Federalists lost the presidency and control of Congress. Jefferson defeated John Adams and received enough electoral votes to tie with Aaron Burr. The tie for first place in the election was to be resolved by the House of Representatives, which was controlled by the Federalists. After deadlocking in 35 ballots, the House of Representatives chose Jefferson by a margin of ten to four.
Fearful that the U.S. might lose navigational rights along the Mississippi, President Thomas Jefferson sent James Monroe and Robert R. Livingston to Paris to negotiate the purchase of New Orleans and its immediate surrounding area. The U.S. was prepared to pay $10 million for the Louisiana parcel. Jefferson anticipated resistance to his proposal. However, war between France and England seemed inevitable in 1803, and the Louisiana Territory was a distraction for France. To focus his resources on the war, Napoleon Bonaparte offered the entire territory of 530 million acres to the United States for $15 million.
The purchase was the government’s largest financial transaction to date, and it doubled the size of the United States at a cost of less than 3¢ per acre. Control of the Mississippi River and the port of New Orleans provided a convenient method of transportation necessary for the development of the new region. The acquisition also distanced France, a potential enemy, from the young nation.
Jefferson replaced his Vice President Aaron Burr with New York Governor George Clinton and easily won re-election in 1804. Once extremely popular, a series of actions caused public disapproval throughout Jefferson’s second term. Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel before fleeing west. When Burr was placed on trial for treason, Jefferson’s zealous campaign for the conviction of his former Vice President alienated many observers. At the same time, England and France were at war, and each nation prohibited any other nation from trading with their opponent. Jefferson responded with the Embargo Act, a move that banned trade with the two warring nations. Rather than punish England and France, the Embargo Act severely damaged U.S. commerce and Jefferson’s popularity.
Jefferson returned to his beloved Monticello and resumed his habit of meticulously documenting every facet of Monticello’s daily operations. During the last years of his life, Jefferson renewed his friendship with John Adams. Many of the letters survive today, giving modern historians a glimpse into the thoughts of two of the nation’s most gifted founders. Exactly 50 years after the Declaration of Independence was issued, Jefferson and Adams passed away.