#702 1931 Red Cross Issue
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Basic Info
2¢
Frame: Grey black, black.
Cross: Carmine rose. carmine lake, lake
Printing Method: Flat Plate
Subject: Red Cross Nurse and Globe
Perforations: 11
Number issued: 99,071,600
Scott #: 702
Issued: May 21st, 1931
Value
Used
15¢
No postmark with gum (MH)
25¢
Full perfect gum, no postmark
no trace of stamp hinge mark (MNH)
50¢
First Day Covers
A first day cover, dated May 21st, 1931
Plate #'s
#702 was issued with the following plate #'s
Number only
Black color
20431-41
20450-57
20466-69
20514-16, 25
Red cross
20445-49
20489-99
20500-03
A Full Pane
A pane of 100 stamps of #702 there were 2 panes to a sheet of 200
The Story Behind the Stamp
The source of of the design is this 1930 Red Cross Poster
1929 photo of Marie Bard, poster girl for the Red Cross. The caption of time read Marie Bard, 22, who is the model for the 1930 Red Cross poster and US postage stamp illustrated by artist Lawrence Wilbur. She doesn't smoke, doesn't stay up late, and cooks and cleans for her mother, a pharmacist, and her father, a coffee and tea importer, in Astoria, Queens. New York, New York, USA
A block of eight signed by the model for the nurse design, Marie Bard, signed by her.
Varieties
Cross dramatically shift in position, these command higher prices
Cross in a lake color
#702a
Missing Cross
Essays
702E
Three photo essays, the first two featuring Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross
1931 Issues
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