Scotts #726 US stamps

#726 1933 Georgia Bicentennial Issue

3¢ Reddish violet, deep reddish violet, violet. bright violet, deep violet

Printing Method: Flat Plate
Subject: General Oglethorpe
Perforations: 11
Number issued: 61,719,200
Scott #: 726
Issued: February 12th, 1933

Value

Used
15¢
No postmark with gum (MH)
20¢ - 25¢
Full perfect gum, no postmark
no trace of stamp hinge mark (MNH)
25¢ - 60¢

First Day Covers

A first day cover, dated February 12th, 1933

Plate #'s

#726 was issued with the following plate #'s

Number only
21096-99
21100-11

A Full Pane

A pane of 100, there were four panes to a sheet of 400

The Story Behind the Stamp

The William Penn Issue shown above (#724) was issued the previous year to wide acclaim. To repeat this success the Georgia Bicentennial issue was designed in the same manner. However because it was second time around, and perhaps because General Oglethorpe was not an attractive face, it met with only limited success.

Savannah

General Oglethorpe landed at the base of a bluff on what is now the Savannah River, just a few miles up river from the Atlantic Ocean. He founded a colony, a drawing of which is shown above and called it Savannah. It was the first colony in Georgia. Savannah derives it name from the native American word Shawnee.