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| Scott# 3935b | Plate P11111 |
| Series | N/A |
| Issue Date & City | August 20, 2005, Detroit, MI |
| Nationwide Sale | August 21, 2005 |
| Designer | Art M. Fitzpatrick, Carlsbad, CA |
| Art Director | Carl T. Herrman, Carlsbad, CA |
| Artist | Art M. Fitzpatrick, Carlsbad, CA |
| Typographer | Carl T. Herrman, Carlsbad, CA |
| Modeler | Joseph Sheeran |
| To Press / Initial Impressions | Spring 2005 / 640 million stamps (32 million booklets) |
| Process | Offset |
| Printer | Ashton Potter USA Ltd. (APU) |
| Printed At | Williamsville, NY |
| Press | Mueller Martini, A74 |
| Processed At | Ashton Potter USA Ltd. (APU) |
| Plate Size | 640 stamps per revolution |
| Paper & Gum | Pressure Sensitive Adhesive, USPS Type I, Solid Tagging |
| Tagging Type | Prephosphored |
| Die Cut Gauge | 10.9 x 10.9 on 2 or 3 sides. |
| Colors | Black, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, plus PMS 1795 (Red) on the cover |
| Image Area | (w x h): 1.42 x 0.84 in. / 36.068 x 21.336 mm |
| Overall Size | (w x h): 1.56 x 0.98 in. / 39.624 x 24.892 mm |
| Full Booklet Size | (w x h): 6.18 x 3.12 in. / 156.972 x 79.248 mm |
| Marginal Markings |
Stamp Side: "©
2004 USPS" • Plate Numbers • "Ford & Thunderbird™
Ford
Motor Company"
Cover Side: "General Motors Corvette Trademarks used under license to the USPS" On Cover: "AMERICA ON THE MOVE" • "Twenty 37¢ self-adhesive stamps • Five Separate Designs" • 50s Sporty Cars • Price • Barcode 673800 |
| Earliest Known Use | March 15, 2005 |
| USPS Order Numbers | |
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673840 Sporty Cars Double Sided Book of 20 - $7.40
673863 First Day Cover Set of 5 - $3.75 673865 Digital Color Postmark Random Single - $1.50 673866 Stamped Cards - $9.75 673868 Digital Color Postmark Set of 5 - $7.50 673899 DCP Keepsake (BK w/DCP RS) - $8.90 |
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| Availability | Stamp Fulfillment Services, Kansas City and most post offices |
| Official Announcement | The Postal Service ™ will issue 37-cent, America on the Move: 50s Sporty Cars commemorative stamps in five designs on August 20, 2005, in Detroit, Michigan. The stamps, designed by Art M. Fitzpatrick of Carlsbad, California, go on sale nationwide August 21, 2005.The America on the Move: 50s Sporty Cars will be issued in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) double- sided convertible booklet of 20 (Item 673800) and a booklet of 20 stamped cards (Item 980700). These five stamps feature the sporty look of American cars designed in the 1950s - a decade marked by post- World War II euphoria and economic prosperity. The cars selected are: • 1952 Nash Healey • 1953 Chevrolet Corvette • 1953 Studebaker Starliner • 1954 Kaiser Darrin • 1955 Ford Thunderbird. Referring to photographs of each car and his own cache of landscape images for the stamp backgrounds, artist Art M. Fitzpatrick has rendered each stamp in meticulous detail. Fitzpatrick was once a car designer and a long-time advertising designer and illustrator for General Motors. |
| Press Release | |
| End Card | Black ink on Cream card. Click here for scan. |
| Note |
There are six philatelic products available for this stamp issue:
• First Day Cover (Set of 5) $3.75 (Item 673863).
• Digital Color Postmark Random Single Cover $1.50 (Item 673865).
• Stamped Postal Cards $9.75 (Item 980733).
• Digital Color Postmark (Set of 5) $7.50 (Item 673868).
• Print and Booklet Set $12.95 (Item 673888).
• Cancellation Keepsake (One random CP Cover
w/booklet) $8.90 (673899).
These products will be available while supplies last at postal stores, online at www.usps.com, and by telephone at 800-STAMP-24.
Stamp distribution offices (SDOs) will receive approximately one-half the standard automatic distribution quantity for a PSA booklet. Distributions are rounded up to the nearest master carton size (4,000 booklets).
SDOs will make a subsequent automatic distribution to Post Offices for one-half of their standard automatic booklet distribution quantity using PS Form 17, Stamp Requisition and Return. SDOs must not distribute booklets to Post Offices before August 15, 2005.
SDOs will not receive a separate quantity Item 673800 for their authorized philatelic centers. Philatelic centers must be supplied their required quantities from the initial automatic distribution made to SDOs.
Post Offices requiring additional Item 673800 must requisition them from their designated SDO using PS Form 17. SDOs requiring additional booklets must order them from the appropriate accountable paper depository (APD) using PS Form 17.
For fulfilling supplemental orders from SDOs, Chicago APD will receive 600,000 additional booklets; the San Francisco, Memphis, and New York APDs will each receive 560,000 additional booklets; and the Denver APD will receive 220,000 additional booklets.
All Post Offices must acquire and maintain a supply of each new commemorative stamp as long as customer demand exists, until inventory is depleted, or until the stamp is officially withdrawn from sale. If supplies run low, Post Offices must reorder additional quantities using their normal ordering procedures.
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