PREXIES: Popular term for the 1938 Presidential Series, U.S. #803-334, #839-51.
PROOF: Preliminary printing of a stamp to test color, design, etc. Unlike an essay, proof designs are used on the finished stamps.
Prexies - see Presidential Series.
Printer's Initials - a marginal marking consisting of printer's initials, punched into an engraved plate by printers each time a printer printed from a plate. The practice probably began in 1894.
Prexies: The nickname for the U.S. 1938-54 Presidential definitive series.
The Prexies
Above are the values up through 10c in the series of US definitives that was released starting in 1938, and lasting through 1954, when the Liberty Series was begun.
The Prexies, as the Presidentials are nicknamed, were used during World War II. Their usage illustrates the complexities of war, such as suspended service, delayed mails, censorship and weird routes.
The so-called "prexies" are some of the last of the U.S. classics. This series of stamps, officially known as the Presidential Issue, released 1938-54, ...
Rustad, The Prexies 1994 page 316 ISBN 0-930412-23-0
^ Leon Norman Williams, Fundamentals of Philately, 1990 page 51 ISBN 0-933580-13-4
^ Inventor Charles F Steel, patent number 86,952
^ 1905 Scott's Catalog - Silurian paper ...
Series of 1938: nickname; see Presidential Series (Prexies).
Serif type: type with an ornamental projection to one side of a letter, at top or bottom.
Seri Pervas, S.S.
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