Normal Color

Anaconda Red

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(10¢) EAGLE and SHIELD
Presorted Standard (Bulk Rate)
Self-Adhesive Coil of 10,000
Scott# 3271 Plate 11111, 22222 (Small Date - apx. 1 ¼ mm wide)
Scott# 3271a Plate 33333 (Large Date - apx 1 ¾ mm wide)
Scott# 3271b Plate 11111 (Small Date) / (Tagged Error)
Series Miscellaneous - Definitive
Issue Date & City December 14, 1998 / Washington, DC 20066
Nationwide Sale December 15, 1998
Illustrator Chris Calle, Ridgefield, CT
Designer Chris Calle, Ridgefield, CT
Art Director Terry McCaffrey, USPS
Typographer John Boyd, New York, NY
To Press / Impressions Fall 1998 / 500 million
Coil Size 10,000
Printer Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP)
Press Andreotti, Model 601
Process Gravure
Where Printed Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, DC.
Where Processed Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, DC.
Plate Size & Interval 378 stamps per revolution / plate # every 21 stamps
Paper & Gum USPS Type III / Self-Adhesive
Tagging Type Untagged
Die Cut Gauge 9.9 Vertically, Peak/Valley 10 x 10
Colors (PMS Colors) Red (PMS 485C), Blue (PMS 287C), Yellow (PMS 143C),
Green (PMS 360C), Brown (PMS 497C)
Image Area (w x h) 0.71 x 0.82 in. / 18.0 x 20.8 mm
Overall Size (w x h) 0.87 x 0.96 in. / 22.1 x 24.4 mm
Back Numbers Blue, every 20, Top and Bottom
Earliest Known Use December 14, 1998
USPS Order Numbers S/A Coil of 10,000 - $1000.00 - 799140
Plate # strip of 25 - $2.50 - 799130
First Day Cover - No number announced - Self service only at this point.
Availability Stamp Fulfillment Services, Kansas City
Tucson, AZ (12-15-98) - Blue Top Back number
Providence, RI (12-15-98)- Blue Bottom Back number
(#22222) Providence, RI (11-14-99)- Blue Bottom Back number
Note: Plate 22222 appeared in late 1999
Varieties Anaconda Red (Pictured Above), Tagged Error
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