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STANDARD POSTAGE

CATALOGUE

UNITED STATES,

UNITED NATIONS &

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

A-B

2009

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VOLUME 1

UNITED STATES

and Affiliated Territories

UNITED NATIONS

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

A-B

EDITOR James E. Kloetzel

ASSOCIATE EDITOR William A. Jones

ASSISTANT EDITOR /NEW ISSUES & VALUING Martin J. Frankevicz

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PRESIDENT William Fay

Released April 2008

Includes New Stamp Listings through the April 2008 Scott Stamp Monthly Catalogue Update

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FEBRUARY 4, 2008

World ’s Large st Week ly Stam p News and Mar ketplac e

Brita in’s 2008 Eur opa s tam p in Feb. 5 set

Bad news fo r soaker s:

it’s goin g to get worse

The United States Postal Service no

longer re quires a wate r-soluble laye r

in its self-adhesive stamp paper.

Page 1 0

to c omm em orate wor king dog s in a ctio n

By Denise McC arty

Royal Ma il (the Britis h Post Of-

f ice) will iss ue six stam ps Feb. 5

sh owing wor king dogs in action

fig hting crime, saving lives a nd mak-

ing ever yday ta sks a little ea sier.

T he Working Dogs issue com-

mem orates an anniversar y and

marks an event, an d it also inc ludes

Great B ritain’s 2008 Europa sta mp.

In 190 8, four dogs named Jim, V ic,

Mick an d Ben began patrolling t he

docks of Hull, accord ing to info r-

mation co mpiled by K evin Gordon

for the Brit ish Transpor t Police His-

tor y Society . The new st amps com-

m emorate th e 100th ann iversar y of

th ese first Brit ish police do gs.

The stamps also honor the des-

ign ation of 200 8 as the Yea r of the

Assi stance Dog i n the United King-

dom. During the year, five ch arities

(Supp ort Dogs, He aring Dogs, Dogs

for the Disabled, C anine Part ners

and Guid e Dogs) will jointly cam -

paign for b etter ser vice s and rights

for all assist ance-dog us ers.

The them e of the 20 08 Europa

s tamps is “Th e Letter.” Th e nonde-

no minated fir st-class stam p in the

Wo rking Dogs set represe nts that

them e by show ing an ass istance

dog c arr ying a le tter to be ma iled.

Ass istance dog s also are tr ained

to com plete such tasks as ope ning

and clo sing doors, tu rning on lig hts,

retrievin g slippers or keys, and he lp-

ing some one dress.

Breeds tr ained to be a ssistance dog s

include the golden retriev er, Labrador

and German shepherd. Th e stamp de-

p icts a Labrad or named Ro wan.

The same breeds, plu s border

co llies, also ca n be traine d to be

mo untain rescu e dogs, track ing lost

and missing pe ople by fol lowing

their scents blow n by the wi nd or

air cu rrents. Scott ish mounta ineer

Bhutan plans CD -ROM

sta mp issue in Marc h

Great Britain ’s Europa stam p for 2008 de-

picts Ro wan, an assis tance dog, car rying

a le tter. The Europ a theme is “Th e Letter.”

The first-clas s stamp is par t of the Feb. 5

Working Dogs set of s ix from Royal M ail.

T he remote nat ion’s 1973 pho nograph

record stam ps will soon h ave a digital

compani on issue with C D-ROM stamp s.

H amish Mc Innes estab lished the

S earch and R escue Dogs Associa-

tio n in the 196 0s.

T he 46-penny stamp show s Mer-

rick , a Labrado r-collie mix, on a

Pag e 12

Please turn to page 36

Ca liforn ia co llecto r win s Jen ny In vert stam p

The W illiamstown, N.J., com-

pany anno unced a pro motion in

late 2006 to give away a 24¢ Jenny

Invert stamp .

The stamp, position No . 30 from

th e pane of 10 0 found in 1918, is

pic tured in Fig ure 1. The Scott

Spe cialized Cat alogue of U nited

State s Stamps an d Covers val ues a

typica l Scott C3a a t $400,000.

The firm, how ever, said t hat

th e stamp is estimated to

be worth a pproximatel y

$15 0,000 becau se it has no

gum and a straig htedge.

Sh edlock told Linn’s that

it was a “shock to w in some-

thing s o great.” He said that

he was happy for th e timing

of winni ng because h e is get-

ting ready for retirem ent.

He plan s on savin g the

stamp for a year to “h onor

the stamp.”

By Jay Biga lke

United States airm ail stamp

collector J ohn Shedloc k of Cali-

fornia won the United S tates 24¢

J enny Invert stamp (Sc ott C3a)

g iven away J an. 12 by Internet

au ction site St ampWants.c om.

T he giveawa y occurred at the

Am erican Phi latelic Soc iety ’s

Ame ristamp show held Jan. 1 1-13

in Ch arlotte, N.C.

The ba llot to vote in Linn’s 2007 U.S.

Sta mp Popularity Poll appears o n page

62. The 2007 U.S. stamps were pic-

tured in t he Dec. 17, 2 007, issue on

pages 32-33. Compl eted ballots m ust

be postmarked by March 8.

Page 6 2

Figure 1. U.S. Jenny Invert stamp, posi-

tio n No. 30, give n away Jan. 1 2 at the

APS Amerist amp show he ld in Char-

lotte, N.C.

Shedlock has been an APS

m ember for 33 years.

S tamps.com flew both Sh edlock

and another co ntestant, M ichael

Flan agan of Ar izona, to N orth

Carol ina for the gi veaway.

Please turn t o page 19

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Table of Contents

Letter from the Editor .....................................................................................5A

Acknowledgments ...........................................................................................6A

Information on Philatelic Societies ...................................................................7A

Expertizing Services ......................................................................................11A

Information on Catalogue Values, Grade and Condition ..................................12A

Grading Illustrations ......................................................................................13A

Gum Chart ....................................................................................................15A

Understanding the Listings ............................................................................16A

Catalogue Listing Policy .................................................................................18A

Special Notices ..............................................................................................19A

Abbreviations ................................................................................................20A

Basic Stamp Information ................................................................................21A

Terminology ..................................................................................................29A

Pronunciation Symbols ..................................................................................31A

Common Design Types ..................................................................................33A

The British Commonwealth of Nations ..........................................................47A

Colonies, Former Colonies, Offices, Territories Controlled by Parent States ....49A

Dies of British Colonial Stamps Referred to in the Catalogue ..........................50A

British Colonial and Crown Agents Watermarks .............................................50A

United States .............................................................................................1

Subject Index of Regular, Commemorative and Air Post Issues ........................ 125

United Nations ......................................................................................210

Countries of the World A-B ...................................................................244

Illustrated Identifier ...................................................................................... 1263

Index and Identifier ...........................................................................1277

2009 Volume 1 Catalogue Number Additions, Deletions & Changes ............ 1285

Currency Conversion .................................................................................. 1286

Dealer Directory Yellow Pages ...................................................................... 1288

Index to Advertisers .................................................................................... 1294

See Volume 2 through 6 for Countries of the World, C-Z

Volume 2: C-F

Volume 3: G-I

Volume 4: J-O

Volume 5: P-Sl

Volume 6: So-Z

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