The Farley Special Printings of 1935
The Farley's Follies
The Scott numbers listed below are for each design of 1933 and 1934 that was issued as a Farley reprint. All of the stamps were printed under the administration of Postmaster General James A. Farley. The twenty Farley reprints, sometimes referred to as "Farley's Follies" and catalogued as Number 752-771, were issued without gum and were placed on sale at the Philatelic Agency in Washington, D.C. for only three months, March 15 through June 15, 1935. Note that the presence or lack of gum does not help in separating most of these stamps, since gum can be removed from the regularly issued stamps by simply soaking them in water. Further, in 1940, the Post Office Department offered to gum full sheets of most of these, including Number 756-765, 769 and 770, and many of those Farley reprint sheets were gummed. The stamps illustrated are all Farley reprints.
Click on an image below to find out how to distinguish the ordinary stamp from the reprint.
3¢ Washington at Newburgh
Number: 727, 752
1¢ Century of Progress
Number: 728, 730, 766
3¢ Century of Progress
Number: 729, 731, 767
3¢ Byrd Antarctic
Number: 733, 735, 753, 768
3¢ Mother's of America
Number: 737, 738, 754
3¢ Wisconsin Tercentenary
Number: 739, 755
1¢ Yosemite - El Capitan
Number: 740, 751, 756, 769
2¢ Grand Canyon
Number: 741, 757
3¢ Mt. Ranier
Number: 742, 750, 758, 770
4¢ Mesa Verde
Number: 743, 759
5¢ Old Faithful
Number: 744, 760
6¢ Crater Lake
Number: 745, 761
7¢ Bar Harbor at Acadia
Number: 746, 762
8¢ Mt. Zion National Park
Number: 747, 763
9¢ Glacier National Park
Number: 748, 764
10¢ Great Smokey Mountains
Number: 749, 765
