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.
