Postage Stamps of the United States - 1936
Politics
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Postmaster General
James A. Farley
Music
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1936 "I Cried For You"
Postage Rates
Domestic Letter Rate: 3¢ per oz.
Postcard Rate: 1¢
Air Mail Rate: 6¢ per oz.
Air Mail Special Delivery Rate: 16¢ per oz.
Trans-Pacific Air Mail:25¢ per ½ oz.
Each leg - S.F.- Honolulu - Guam - Manila)
Stamps
Commemorative Postage Stamps of 1936
Rotary Press - Perf 11 x 10½ - 200 Subject Plates
Texas Centennial
Gonzales, Texas - March 2, 1936
124,324,500 issued
Rhode Island Tercentenary
Providence, RI - May 4, 1936
Perf 10½ x 11 - 67,127,650 issued
Arkansas Centennial
Little Rock - June 15, 1936
72,992,650 issued
Oregon Territory Centennial
7/14 - Lewiston ID; Astoria OR; Missoula MO
Walla Walla WA; Daniel WY - 74,407,450
Susan B. Anthony
400 subject plates - Rochester, NY
August 26, 1936
269,522,200 issued
1¢ Army - Washington & Greene
Washington D.C.
December 15, 1936
105,196,150 issued
1¢ Navy - Jones & Barry
Washington D.C.
December 15, 1936
104,773,450 issued
The Souvenir Sheet of 1936
Third International Philatelic Exhibition Souvenir Sheet
New York Branch Philatelic Agency in the Grand Central Palace, NY
May 9, 1936
2,809,039 issued
The Air Mail Special Delivery Stamp of 1936
Flat Plate - Perforated 11 - 200 Subject Plates
CE2 - 16¢ Air Mail Special Delivery
FDC: Feb. 10, 1936
Quantity Issued: 72,517,850
The following postage stamp varieties were first issued by the U.S. in 1936
Ordinary issue
There were no new varieties of the ordinary stamps issued in 1936.
Commemoratives
Number 776 - 3¢ Texas Centennial - Designer: A. R. Meissner
Engravers: C. T. Arlt, L. C. Kauffmann & F. Pauling (vignette) · W. B. Wells (lettering)
Number 777 - 3¢ Rhode Island Tercentenary - Designer: Alvin R. Meissner
Engravers: C. T. Arlt (vignette) ·W. B. Wells & D. R. McLeod (lettering)
Number 782 - 3¢ Arkansas Centennial - Designer: Alvin R. Meissner
Engravers: Carl T. Arlt (vignette) ·Wm. B. Wells (lettering)
Number 783 - 3¢ Oregon Territory Centennial - Designer: A. R. Meissner
Engravers: C. T. Arlt (vignette) ·Wm. B. Wells & George L. Huber (lettering)
Number 784 - 3¢ Susan B. Anthony - Designer: Victor S. McCloskey, Jr.
Engravers: Carl T. Arlt (vignette) · Edward M. Hall (lettering)
Number 785 - 1¢ Army Stamp - Designer: Wm K. Schrage
Engravers: M. D. Fenton & Frank Pauling (vignette) · E. M. Hall (lettering)
Number 790 - 1¢ Navy Stamp - Designer: A. R. Meissner
Engraver: C. T. Arlt & L. C. Kauffmann (vignette) · W. B. Wells (lettering)
"Lettering" refers to the lettering, numerals and, where applicable, the frame. Each engraver was assigned a portion of the stamp which emphasized his particular area of expertise. In practice, this meant the senior engravers were assigned the task of engraving the portrait or vignette and the less senior engravers the task of engraving the numerals, lettering and frame.
Air Mail Special Delivery
Number CE2 - The Red and Blue 16¢ Great Seal of the United States - Designer: Victor S. McCloskey, Jr.
Engravers: John Eissler (vignette) · Edward H. Helmuth (lettering)
Air Mail
There were no new Special Delivery stamps issued in 1936.
Special Delivery
There were no new Special Delivery stamps issued in 1936.
Suggested reading
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Stamps of the United States 1933-1945 - by Brian C. Baur (1993 Linn's Stamp News)
The United States Postage Stamps of the Twentieth Century Volume IV: Commemoratives 1933-1937 - by Max Johl (1938 H. L. Lindquist publisher)
