BEP - Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the US government department, founded in 1862, that produces all US currency and, from 1894 until 1979, all of its stamps.
The BEP is the branch of the US Treasury Department responsible for printing postage stamps. Once the primary source of modern coils, the BEP discontinued the production of coil stamps effective the end of Fiscal Year 2005.
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The first BEP definitive series consisted of 13 different values. Eleven of these, including the 1¢ Franklin stamp shown at left in Figure 1 (Scott 246), ...
29¢ Wood Duck, BEP booklet single (black text, 4/12/91)
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Davis, BEP employees initials, 1906-1928; see Plate Finisher, Siderographer.
*Representative Number - plate numbers assigned to both BEP-printed and privately-printed plates since 1980. From 1980 to 2006, the first plate of each type (i.e. intaglio, gravure, offset) prepared for a given stamp was given number 1.
This animated video was created in 1993 for the Postal Museum's Stamps and Stories gallery. The BEP shut down its 111 years of printing postage stamps on June 10, 2005. U.S. stamps are now all printed by private contractors.
A plate strip of 3 of the 2-cent US stamp of 1895 includes the BEP's name.
 See also: Stamp, Printing, Used, Plate, Cover
  
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