Postage Stamps of the United States - 1941

Politics


President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Postmaster General
Frank C. Walker

Music



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1941 "Tonight"

Postage Rates

Domestic Letter Rate: 3¢ per oz.

Postcard Rate: 1¢

Air Mail Rate: 6¢ per oz. .


Stamps

Commemorative Postage Stamps of 1941
Rotary Press - Perf 11 x 10½ - 200 Subject Electric Eye Plates

150th Anniversary of Vermont Statehood
Montpelier, Vermont - March 4, 1941
54,574,550 issued

Commemorative Postage Stamps of 1940
Rotary Press - Perf 11 x 10½ - 200 Subject Electric Eye Plates

6¢ Transport Plane Air Mail
June 25, 1941
4,746,527,700 issued

10¢ Transport Plane Air Mail
August 15, 1941
67,117,400 issued

15¢ Transport Plane Air Mail
August 19, 1941
78,434,800 issued

20¢ Transport Plane Air Mail
August 27, 1941
42,359,850 issued

30¢ Transport Plane Air Mail
September 25, 1941
59,880,850 issued

50¢ Transport Plane Air Mail
October 29, 1941
11,160,600 issued

Ordinary issue
There were no new Regular Issue stamps issued in 1941.

Commemoratives
Number 903 - The 3¢ 150th Anniversary of Vermont's Statehood 1791-1941 Designer: Alvin R. Meissner · Engravers: Carl T. Arlt (vignette) & J. T. Vail (lettering)

Air Mail
Designer: William A. Roach · Engravers: J. R. Lowe (vignette) · J. S. Edmondson & J. T. Vail (lettering)
Number C25 - The 6¢ Twin-Motored Transport Plane
Number C27 - The 10¢ Twin-Motored Transport Plane
Number C28 - The 15¢ Twin-Motored Transport Plane
Number C29 - The 20¢ Twin-Motored Transport Plane
Number C30 - The 30¢ Twin-Motored Transport Plane
Number C31 - The 50¢ Twin-Motored Transport Plane

Special Delivery
There were no new Special Delivery stamps issued in 1941.

Suggested reading
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Stamps of the United States 1933-1945, by Brian C. Baur (Linn's 1993)