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Year Sets

Modern stamps, especially those issued after 1940, are oftencollected by the year, since individual stamps sell for so little it is not worth a dealers time to sell the stamps individually.





Yorktown Issue

The bi-colored US two-cent stamp of 1931 honoring the Battle of Yorktown and the surrender of General Cornwallis to General Washington.