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FORMATS FOR 2010 ISSUES IN WHITE ACE COMMEMORATIVE SUPPLEMENTS

This compilation is being published to assist in collecting currently available issues in advance of publication of the 2010 White Ace album supplements.

The Commemorative Singles SIMPLIFIED pages are intended to simplify the collector's stamp purchasing requirements, and are thus an ideal choice for a beginning collector. Released for the first time by White Ace for the 1996 issues, they have been continued for each subsequent year's issues and will continue to be published, in the same format, for the 2010 issues. These pages will generally seek to show each face different stamp only once. For stamps issued in se-tenant format - i.e. more than one stamp design in a pane - the smallest intact unit will be shown that contains all designs. This will usually be a strip, block or full booklet pane. All face different versions of each commemorative issue will be included and will thus enable the collector to assemble a complete commemorative collection.

The Commemorative Singles (complete) pages will continue to be published in their original format for collectors wishing to assemble a more detailed and comprehensive collection. For se-tenant issues, these pages will show a set of singles and a strip or block as in the past. Other stamp formats will continue to be shown in a manner consistent with prior printings of this album.

COMMEMORATIVE ALBUMS

LUNAR NEW YEAR--YEAR OF THE TIGER (01/14/10)

 -Singles – 1 single

 -Singles SIMPLIFIED – 1 single

 -Blocks – 1 block of 4

 -Plate Blocks – 1 full sheet (there are no plate numbers)

 -Plate Blocks SIMPLIFIED – 1 full sheet (there are no plate numbers)


OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES (01/22/10)

 -Singles – 1 single

 -Singles SIMPLIFIED – 1 single

 -Blocks – 1 block of 4

 -Plate Blocks – 1 plate block of 4

 -Plate Blocks SIMPLIFIED – 1 plate block of 4


DISTINGUISHED SAILORS (02/04/10)

 -Singles – 4 singles and a block of 4

 -Singles SIMPLIFIED – 1 block of 4

 -Blocks – 1 block of 4

 -Plate Blocks – 1 plate block of 8 from top of sheet (including left, right & top selvage)
 -Plate Blocks SIMPLIFIED – 1 plate block of 4


ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISTS (03/11/10)

 -Singles – 10 singles and a full sheet of 10

 -Singles SIMPLIFIED – 1 full sheet of 10

 -Blocks – 1 full sheet of 10

 -Plate Blocks – 1 full sheet of 10 (there are no plate numbers)

 -Plate Blocks SIMPLIFIED – 1 full sheet of 10


BILL MAULDIN (03/31/10)

 -Singles – 1 single

 -Singles SIMPLIFIED – 1 single

 -Blocks – 1 block of 4

 -Plate Blocks – 1 plate block of 4

 -Plate Blocks SIMPLIFIED – 1 plate block of 4


FLAGS OF OUR NATION - SET #4 (04/16/10)

 -Singles – 10 singles and 2 strips of 5

 -Singles SIMPLIFIED – 2 strips of 5

 -Blocks – 2 strips of 5

 -Plate Blocks – 2 strips of 5 - one with plate number

 -Plate Blocks SIMPLIFIED – 2 strips of 5 - one with plate number


COWBOYS OF THE SILVER SCREEN  (04/17/10)

 -Singles – 4 singles and a block of 4

 -Singles SIMPLIFIED – 1 block of 4

 -Blocks – 1 block of 4

 -Plate Blocks – 2 plate blocks of 4 - 1 upper & 1 lower

 -Plate Blocks SIMPLIFIED – 1 plate block of 4


LOVE - PANSIES IN A BASKET (04/22/10)

 -Singles – 1 single

 -Singles SIMPLIFIED – 1 single

 -Blocks – 1 block of 4

 -Plate Blocks – 1 plate block of 4

 -Plate Blocks SIMPLIFIED – 1 plate block of 4


ADOPT A SHELTER PET (04/30/10)

 -Singles – 10 singles and a block of 10

 -Singles SIMPLIFIED – 1 block of 10

 -Blocks – 1 block of 10

 -Plate Blocks – 1 full pane of 20
 -Plate Blocks SIMPLIFIED – 1 plate block of 10


KATHERINE HEPBURN (05/12/10)

 -Singles – 1 single and 1 full sheet

 -Singles SIMPLIFIED – 1 single

 -Blocks – 1 block of 4 and 1 full sheet

 -Plate Blocks – 1 plate block of 4 and 1 full sheet

 -Plate Blocks SIMPLIFIED – 1 plate block of 4


KATE SMITH (05/27/10)

 -Singles – 1 single

 -Singles SIMPLIFIED – 1 single

 -Blocks – 1 block of 4

 -Plate Blocks – 1 plate block of 4

 -Plate Blocks SIMPLIFIED – 1 plate block of 4


OSCAR MICHEAUX (06/22/10)

 -Singles – 1 single

 -Singles SIMPLIFIED – 1 single

 -Blocks – 1 block of 4

 -Plate Blocks – 1 plate block of 4

 -Plate Blocks SIMPLIFIED – 1 plate block of 4


NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL (07/15/10)

 -Singles – 2 singles and a pair

 -Singles SIMPLIFIED – 1 pair

 -Blocks – 1 block of 4

 -Plate Blocks – 2 plate blocks of 4 - 1 left & 1 right

 -Plate Blocks SIMPLIFIED – 1 plate block of 4


SUNDAY FUNNIES (07/16/10)

 -Singles – 5 singles and a strip of 5

 -Singles SIMPLIFIED – 1 strip of 5

 -Blocks – 1 block of 10

 -Plate Blocks – 1 plate block of 10

 -Plate Blocks SIMPLIFIED – 1 plate block of 10


SCOUTING (07/27/10)

 -Singles – 1 single

 -Singles SIMPLIFIED – 1 single

 -Blocks – 1 block of 4

 -Plate Blocks – 1 plate block of 4

 -Plate Blocks SIMPLIFIED – 1 plate block of 4


WINSLOW HOMER (08/12/10)

 -Singles – 1 single

 -Singles SIMPLIFIED – 1 single

 -Blocks – 1 block of 4

 -Plate Blocks – 1 plate block of 4

 -Plate Blocks SIMPLIFIED – 1 plate block of 4


HAWAIIAN RAIN FOREST (09/01/10)

 -Singles – 10 singles and 1 full sheet

 -Singles SIMPLIFIED – 1 full sheet

 -Blocks – 1 full sheet

 -Plate Blocks – 1 full sheet (there are no plate numbers)

 -Plate Blocks SIMPLIFIED – 1 full sheet (there are no plate numbers)


MOTHER TERESA (09/05/10)

 -Singles – 1 single

 -Singles SIMPLIFIED – 1 single

 -Blocks – 1 block of 4

 -Plate Blocks – 1 plate block of 4

 -Plate Blocks SIMPLIFIED – 1 plate block of 4

JULIA DE BURGOS (09/14/10)

 -Singles – 1 single

 -Singles SIMPLIFIED – 1 single

 -Blocks – 1 block of 4

 -Plate Blocks – 1 plate block of 4

 -Plate Blocks SIMPLIFIED – 1 plate block of 4

 

ANGEL WITH LUTE (10/21/10)

 -Singles – 1 single

 -Singles SIMPLIFIED – 1 single

 -Blocks – 1 block of 4

 -Plate Blocks – 1 plate block of 4

 -Plate Blocks SIMPLIFIED – 1 plate block of 4


HOLIDAY EVERGREENS CONVERTIBLE BOOKLET OF 20 (10/21/10)

 -Singles – 4 singles and 1 full pane of 20

 -Singles SIMPLIFIED – 1 full pane of 20

 -Blocks – 1 full pane of 20

 -Plate Blocks – 1 full pane of 20

 -Plate Blocks SIMPLIFIED – 1 full pane of 20

 -Booklet Panes – 1 full booklet pane of 20


HOLIDAY EVERGREENS ATM PANE OF 18 (10/21/10)

 -Singles – 4 singles and 1 full pane of 18

 -Singles SIMPLIFIED – 1 full pane of 18

 -Blocks – 1 full pane of 18

 -Plate Blocks – 1 full pane of 18

 -Plate blocks SIMPLIFIED – 1 full pane of 18

 -Booklet Panes – 1 full booklet pane of 18


Many of the 2010 commemorative issues listed are unexceptional and follow formats long established for each of the albums listed. For those which are not common or do not fit established patterns, we offer the following explanations. 


As most users of White Ace Commemorative pages are aware, we show a full pane of the Legends of Hollywood series issue―with a large illustrated area of selvage on one side of the sheet―in all of our Commemorative pages except for the Singles Simplified, Plate Blocks Simplified, and Copyright Singles or Blocks.  Including a full sheet when it has this layout, began with the Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe issues in the early 1990s, and  has continued for issues having similar format ever since.  For example, refer to Frida Kahlo (2001), Daffy Duck (1999), Andy Warhol (2002), etc.  In our 2010 pages, we have followed this pattern by including full sheets of Katherine Hepburn.


In the White Ace Plate Block Albums, a plate block is considered the smallest block (of 4 or more stamps) that can be taken from the margin of the sheet, that contains all stamp designs, and has attached selvage bearing a plate number. If more than one such block can be removed from a sheet and the plate number is adjacent to a different stamp design in any of these, then each such example is shown in our Plate Blocks Complete pages. In our Plate Blocks Simplified pages, any such plate position can be collected. In most cases, there will be two rows or columns of stamps opposite the plate number. (This definition may vary somewhat where there is a particularly attractive header or illustrated selvage or where there is more than one plate number along the same margin of the sheet).


Thus in our Plate Blocks pages, for Distinguished Sailors, these rules require that we show two plate blocks of 4―one left and one right. However, because of the attractive header, we will show these as an upper plate block of 8 with attached header and side selvage. Previous examples of this layout are American Scientists (2008) and Distinguished Marines (2005). In like fashion, we would have to show Shelter Pets as right and left plate blocks of 10, which comprise the entire sheet. Thus, we simply show the entire sheet. A precedent for this is the Advances in American Aviation issue (2005).


Sometimes, issues with souvenir sheet or booklet formats have either no plate number (Lunar New Year, Abstract Expressionists and Hawaiian Rain Forest), or have plate numbers on the back of the pane (although there are no such issues for 2010). Our practice has been, and continues to be, to include examples of such issues in our plate block pages.


What is unusual for 2010, is that copyright markings are either absent or on the back of the sheet for every issue. Because there are no copyright markings on the face of any pane, there will  be no Copyright Singles or Copyright Blocks album pages for 2010.


In 2008, we included the first and second sets of the Flags of our Nation Coil issues and after publication discovered that some collectors took exception to the sequence in which we displayed these stamps. In the White Ace plate block albums, we have always shown a plate number coil with the plate number at the center of the strip for an odd number of stamps (Tropical Fruit 2008 for example); or with the plate number on the stamp whose position is half of the total for an even number of stamps (Fruit Berries 1999 for example). In our singles and blocks pages, we have always shown a coil strip without plate number in the same sequence as the strip with the plate number. 


On the Flags of our Nation coil, the USPS placed the plate number on the first stamp of  the roll, and on every subsequent tenth stamp. However, unlike prior se-tenant coils, the subsequent nine stamp designs on the first set and all ten stamps on the second set were arranged alphabetically. 


In planning our album layout we choose retain our usual placement of the plate number. Thus, for the five-stamp strip of the Flags of our Nation that contained the plate number, we displayed it with the plate number on the center stamp; to complete the set of ten stamps we showed the remaining five stamps as a strip without plate number. In our singles pages, we showed the same two five-stamp strips. We will continue to use this arrangement for this series for the 2010 and subsequent Flags of our Nation issues until the series is complete.  


We are aware that our sequence places the stamps out of alphabetical order, which some collectors have found objectionable. One should note however, that  the collector is free to break up the coil in any sequence preferred and mount it in the space provided. 


For other issues which may be puzzling, we direct the interested collector to prior issues which may be a precedent. For example: for Hawaiian Rain Forest (2010), see Kelp Forest (2009), Great Lakes Dunes (2008), Alpine Tundra (2007), Florida Wetland (2006), Northeast Deciduous Forest (2005),  Pacific Coral Reefs (2004), Arctic Tundra (2003), Longleaf Pine Forest (2002) and earlier Nature of America issues.


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