FREE: 1932 3c George Washington Stamp Used Scott #720

The listing, 1932 3c George Washington Stamp Used Scott #720 has ended.

One received will be used with a normal cancel(no torn or fake). A straight line across center with a couple letters. This is inside a plastic protection on index card. This one is perforated. My camera does not take good for small items, so I have an instock photo also.

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U.S. #720
3¢ Washington
Issue Date: 1932
Color: Violet


On January 15 of 1923 the US Post Office issued another 2c red Washington postage stamp as part of its new definitive series, thus continuing the tradition of honoring Washington on every day use postage. An existing engraving of Washington made for use on the Washington-Franklin issue was used. That engraving, done by Marcus Baldwin, was modeled from a bust made by Clark Mills in 1853 which however was a reproduction of a bust sculpted by Jean Antoine Houdon at Washington’s Mount Vernon, Virginia, home in 1785. Clair Aubrey Huston designed the stamp's frame, which was engraved by Edward M. Hall and Joachim C. Benzing.
Issue of 1932.

After the increase of the normal letter-rate from 2 cents to 3 cents in 1932, the public, for the first time in sixty years, no longer had a definitive Washington stamp for its daily correspondence. Rather than converting the 1923 definitive stamp to the new rate, the Post Office redesigned the 2 cent Washington Bicentennial value as a 3 cent stamp.