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6c Eagle President Franklin D. Roosevelt sketch
Object Details
- Description
- This is Franklin Delano Roosevelt's original design for the 1938 airmail postage stamp with the annotation: "red border, blue eagle, white background ... Franklin D. Roosevelt, fecit." The designer at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing reworked the eagle and wording but as indicated by FDR's hand-written "fecit," this was the one postage stamp design that the president felt he had created from scratch and for which he took credit as the designer.
- The red and blue bicolor stamp featuring the American eagle helped distinguish airmail letters from regular mail. The first day of issue coincided with National Air Mail Week, a nationwide campaign to promote the use of airmail.
- References:
- Baur, Brian C. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Stamps of the United States 1933-45. Sidney, OH: Linn’s Stamp News, 1993.
- Baur, Brian C. Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Stamp-Collecting President. Sidney, OH: Linn’s Stamp News, 1999.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1938
- Object number
- 0.209045.13
- Artist
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, American, 1882 - 1945
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper (ruled); graphite
- Dimensions
- Height x Width: 3 x 5 in. (7.62 x 12.7 cm)
- Place
- United States of America
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- On View
- Currently on exhibit at the National Postal Museum
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA C23
- Topic
- National Stamp Collection
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_0.209045.13
- Usage
- CC0
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