4¢ Stamp of Cliff Palace - Mesa Verde National Park, CO
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Big B Bob
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Anasazi luxury commemorated on a 4¢ postage stamp.
Waymark Code: WM5A2E
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 12/04/2008
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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 4-cent brown National Parks stamp issued September 25, 1934, depicts the 'Cliff Palace' in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. The park was established in 1906 to preserve and protect the cliff dwellings and other archaeological remnants of the ancient Puebloan Indians, also called 'Anasazi'.
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: September 25, 1934
Denomination: 4¢
Color: Brown on white
Stamp Type: Single Stamp
Relevant Web Site: Not listed
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