5¢ Stamp of Old Faithful - Yellowstone National Park, WY
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Big B Bob
N 44° 27.591 W 110° 49.613
12T E 513772 N 4922964
Yellowstone's most famous geyser immortalized on a 5¢ stamp.
Waymark Code: WM5A25
Location: Wyoming, United States
Date Posted: 12/04/2008
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member Team Farkle 7
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To encourage domestic tourism and to promote America's national parks, a series of ten stamps was issued on various dates from July 16 to October 8, 1934. In denominations of 1- to 10-cents, the stamps depict scenes from the national parks in various colors.

The 5-cent blue National Parks stamp issued July 30, 1934, features an image of Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone is noted for its wide variety of thermal activity—geysers, hot springs, and bubbling mud pools, and for the spectacular Upper and Lower Falls in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River. The nation's first national park, Yellowstone was established in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana in 1872.

Two imperforate souvenir sheets were issued with designs from the National Parks Series. A souvenir sheet of six 3-cent stamps was issued on August 28, 1934, for the American Philatelic Society Exhibition. A souvenir sheet of six 1-cent stamps was issued on October 10, 1934, for the Trans-Mississippi Philatelic Exposition.

The National Parks Series was reissued on March 15, 1935, in imperforate, ungummed sheets of two hundred, and in imperforate, ungummed sheets of twenty panes of six stamps each. Referred to as 'Farley's Follies', Postmaster General James Farley's 'special printings' suffered a storm of criticism. It boiled over with this excessive issue. Farley was pilloried in both the philatelic and the popular press. He finally abandoned the practice. The National Parks series was the last of the special printings.
Stamp Issuing Country: USA

Date of Issue: July 30, 1934

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Color: Blue on white

Stamp Type: Single Stamp

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