Fourth Bureau issue

The Fourth Bureau Issue, also known as the Series of 1922, was a definitive series of postage stamps issued by the United States between 1922 and 1938. The series comprises 27 different designs with denominations ranging from one-half-cent to 5 dollars. The designs featured past presidents, prominent Americans, architectural landmarks, and icons of American culture.

The first issue of the series, featuring president Rutherford Hayes, was released on 4 October 1922, the 100th anniversary of Hayes's birth, in his hometown of Fremont, Ohio. This was the first instance of the USPS issuing new stamps on a specific day and in a specific city. Collectors regard the First Day Covers of this stamp as the beginning of modern First Day Cover collecting.

The Fourth Bureau Issue stamps were produced during a period of modernization and rapid change within the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The long production life of the series resulted in stamps that were produced on both the older flat plate printing press as well as the new rotary printing press. The series includes numerous variations of color shades, perforation differences, security overprints, precancels, commemorative overprints, plate errors, and other distinguishing factors of interest to collectors.

Individual stamp designs

DesignImage
½¢ Nathan Hale
Ben Franklin
1½¢ Warren Harding profile
1½¢ Warren Harding Portrait from campaign poster.
Replaced prior design because his widow did not like profile. 

(Issued 1930)

George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Change of rate 1932
Design taken from Washington_Bicentennial_stamps_of_1932
Martha Washington
Howard Taft
(issued 1930)
Theodore Roosevelt
James Garfield
William McKinley
Ulysses Grant
Thomas Jefferson
10¢ James Monroe
11¢ Rutherford Hayes
12¢ Grover Cleveland
13¢ Benjamin Harrison
(issued 1925)
14¢ American Indian
15¢ Statue of Liberty
17¢ Woodrow Wilson
(issued 1925)
20¢ Golden Gate
Note: no bridge yet.
25¢ Niagara Falls
30¢ American buffalo
50¢ Arlington Amphitheater
$1 Lincoln Memorial ]
$2 United States Capitol
$5 Head of Freedom Statue

Rotary issues of 1922-1928

  • Precanceling
  • Gum Breakers

Overprints

References

  • United States Postage Stamps 1902-1935 by Max G. Johl
  • Scott Specialized Catalogue of United States Stamps
  • Gary Griffith - United States Stamps 1922–26 from Linn's


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