Sentence examples for airmail stamp from inspiring English sources

The misprint of the 24-cent airmail stamp, America's first, became an instant collector's item.

The card will reproduce the 7‐cent Hawaii Statehood commemorative airmail stamp, 1959; the 3c Hawaii stamp of the 1937 Territorial series, picturing the statue of King Kamehameha, and the 80‐cent 1952 airmail stamp picturing Diamond Head.

Among the show-stoppers are stamps like the Inverted Jenny, the iconic first American airmail stamp of 1918, on which a little blue biplane, nicknamed Jenny, was printed upside-down by mistake.

Other stamps acquire rarity (and hence added value) from printers' errors; a good example is the printing of a 1918 U.S. 24-cent airmail stamp with an airplane pictured upside down.

Last year, for example, the Postal Service reprinted a version of a famous airmail stamp issued in 1918 with an error known as the Inverted Jenny, which shows a Curtiss JN-4 biplane, or a "Jenny," printed upside down.

The 24-cent airmail stamp issued in 1918, popularly known to collectors as the Inverted Jenny, became famous — and valuable — because of an error: the airplane in the center of the design, a Curtiss JN-4, is printed upside-down.

She asked him for some airmail stamps a few hours before her suicide.

It finds a perfect foil in its neighbor: a tiny red Warhol canvas of repeating airmail stamps (seven-cent!) achieved with a rubber stamp.

"When I do this trick I always use airmail stamps," he says, his joke flying over the heads of children more familiar with e-mail.

Other innovations eventually followed; airmail stamps, used for letters carried especially by air, were first issued by Italy experimentally in 1917, with the first regular issue put out by the United States in 1918.

Instead of imposing baroque form on the material, Carson lets Michael haunt the work, writing into its lacunae, through the eeriness of his handwriting, of the airmail stamps he used.