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Many artists have had the same work appear on different U.S. postages stamps and many artists have had multiple works appear on U.S. postage stamps. The list does not include artists who were commissioned by the U.S. Post Office Department (or its successor, the United States Postal Service) to specifically create artwork for a postage stamp.
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Rises since have prompted F for Flower, G for Old Glory and H for Hat stamps, all appropriately illustrated. The F stamp in 1991 was accompanied by an undenominated "make-up" stamp with no pictorial design beyond a frame, which enclosed the words "This U. S. stamp, along with 25¢ of additional U. S. postage, is equivalent to the 'F' stamp rate."
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Linn's Stamp News is an American weekly magazine for stamp collectors. It is published by Amos Media Co. , which also publishes the Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue , the Scott Specialized Catalogue of United States Stamps and Covers , and the Scott Classic Specialized Catalogue of Stamps and Covers 1840–1940 .
Where hand stamps were not available, stamps often were cancelled by marking over the stamp with pen, such as writing an "x". Pen cancellations were used in the United States into the 1880s, [ 6 ] and in a sense continue to this day, when a postal clerk notices a stamp has escaped cancellation and marks it with a ball point pen or marker .
The stamp was designed to celebrate the art of magic and "by rotating each stamp, you can see a white rabbit popping out of a black top hat." [54] In August 2019 the United States Postal Service introduced a second stamp with lenticular technology, this time featuring the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus Rex. The USPS explained that "two of the four ...