1985 22c Domestic Letter Rate "D" Coil
# M85-6 - 1985 22c Domestic Letter Rate "D" Coil
$1.25
1985 “D” Rate Official Stamp
Fleetwood Maximum Card
Fleetwood Maximum Card
Issue Date: February 4, 1985
City: Washington, DC
City: Washington, DC
Official Mail stamps are genuine postage stamps, although they were never available at any post office. These unique stamps are called Officials because their use was strictly limited to government mail. They were in use from 1873 to 1884, when “penalty” envelopes replaced Official stamps. In 1983, official stamps were reintroduced.
The stamp on this Maximum Card, #O139, pictures the Great Seal of the United States, with a bald eagle. The picture on the card is also a bald eagle. The cancel shows the First Day of Issue of the stamp.
A Maximum Card features a stamp and cancel on the picture side of a postcard. The stamps, cancel, and picture are designed to be in maximum concordance, which means to match as closely as possible without reproducing the stamp image.
1985 “D” Rate Official Stamp
Fleetwood Maximum Card
Fleetwood Maximum Card
Issue Date: February 4, 1985
City: Washington, DC
City: Washington, DC
Official Mail stamps are genuine postage stamps, although they were never available at any post office. These unique stamps are called Officials because their use was strictly limited to government mail. They were in use from 1873 to 1884, when “penalty” envelopes replaced Official stamps. In 1983, official stamps were reintroduced.
The stamp on this Maximum Card, #O139, pictures the Great Seal of the United States, with a bald eagle. The picture on the card is also a bald eagle. The cancel shows the First Day of Issue of the stamp.
A Maximum Card features a stamp and cancel on the picture side of a postcard. The stamps, cancel, and picture are designed to be in maximum concordance, which means to match as closely as possible without reproducing the stamp image.