Scott 5444a
Forever Wild Orchids (Coil) |
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Scott 5444a
Coil Strip of 10 #5435-5444 (10 designs) | | $13.50 | | Add-to-Cart |
Scott 5444a
 Plate Number Coil
of 17 #5435-5444 (10 designs+7
Duplicates) | | $25.00 | | Add-to-Cart |
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Scott 5444a
Forever Wild Orchids
Coil Strip of 10 |
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Scott 5444a
Forever Wild Orchids
Plate Number Coil of 17
(PNC strip will be folded between the 10th and
11th (see red-line above)stamp starting from the left) |
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Issue:
(Scott 5445-5454) | Wild Orchids Stamps |
| Item Number: | 750400 (3K) / 750700 (10K) |
| Denomination: | Forever |
| Type of Issue: | Definitive |
| Format: | Coil of 3K (10 designs) / Coil of 10K (10 designs) |
| Series: | N/A |
| Issue Date: | 2020 February 21 |
| Issue City: | Coral Gables FL 33134 |
| Art Director: | Ethel Kessler Bethesda MD |
| Designer: | Ethel Kessler Bethesda MD |
| Typographer: | Ethel Kessler Bethesda MD |
| Existing Photos: | Jim Fowler Greenville SC |
| Modeler: | Sandra Lane / Michelle Finn |
| Manufacturing Process: | Offset |
| Printer: | Banknote Corporation of America |
| Press Type: | Alprinta 74 |
| Stamps per Coil: | 3K / 10K |
| Print Quantity: | 15 million stamps (3K) / 50 million stamps (10K) |
| Paper Type: | Nonphosphored Type III |
| Adhesive Type: | Pressure-sensitive |
| Processed at: | Banknote Corporation of America |
| Stamp Orientation: | Vertical |
| Die Cut: | TBD |
| Image Area (w x h): | 0.73 x 0.84 in
18.542 x 21.336 mm |
| Stamp Size (w x h): | 0.87 x 0.98 in
22.098 x 24.892 mm |
| Colors: | Cyan; Magenta; Yellow; Black |
| Plate Size: | 540 stamps per revolution |
| Plate Numbers: | “B” followed by four (4) single digits |
| Coil Number Frequency: | Plate number every 27th stamp below stamp image |
| Back Numbers | 3K: 4-digit / 10K: 5-digit |
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Stamp Announcement 20-08: Wild Orchids Stamps
Postal Bulletin 22537 — 2020 January 16 |
Note:
The United States Wild Orchids coil forever stamps issued 2020
February 21 presented a challenge for the Scott catalog editors
in trying to figure out how to collect a plate number strip that
does not follow the precedents set by previous coil issues.
Ten different Wild Orchids coil stamps were issued, but the
plate number ("B" followed by four single digits) appears on
every 27th stamp depicting the eastern prairie fringed orchid
(Platanthera grandiflora). Because of this, a Wild Orchids coil
of 3,000 or 10,000 cannot have 10 stamps repeating in order
throughout a given roll.
The Scott editors examined a long strip of Wild Orchids coil
stamps and determined that a strip of 10 different stamps can be
removed from a roll. Such a strip of 10 can be found in a roll
with and without a plate number.
On the plate number strip of 10, the plate number appears on the
ninth stamp from the left. This strip of 10 with plate number
will be listed in the Scott catalogs and will be included in the
2020 Scott Plate Number Coils album supplement.
For a plate number strip with the plate number stamp in the
center of the strip, 17 stamps are needed. The first three
stamps in the strip of 17 (picturing the large purple fringed
orchid (Platanthera grandiflora), terrestrial cowhorn
(Cyrtopodium polyphyllum) and common grass pink orchid
(Calopogon tuberosus) appear only once. The Eastern Prairie
Fringed Orchid (Platanthera grandiflora) stamp bearing the plate
number in the center also appears without a plate number in the
16th position in the strip.
The strip of 17 will be listed in the 2021 Scott catalogs, but
there will be no Scott album page for it because it is too large
to fit.
A collector can thus remove from a roll a plate number strip of
17 and the immediately following strip of 10 without plate
number. This neatly covers all 27 stamps in the plate number
interval.
Therefore, in each strip of 27 stamps, the three stamps that are
found at the beginning of the plate number strip of 17 appear
one less time than the other seven stamps.
Because the Wild Orchids stamps from a double-sided pane of 20
and the Wild Orchids coil stamps have different sizes, all
stamps will be illustrated in the listings in the Scott New
Issues Update in the April 20 issue of Linn s Stamp News.
The order of the stamps in the block of 10 found on the side
containing 12 stamps in the double-sided pane differ from the
order in the strip of 10 different coil stamps.
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