Farley

James Aloysius Farley was the U.S. Postmaster General for about seven years during Franklin Roosevelt’s preidency. He was remembered by stamp collectors for giving us souvenir sheets, which he seemed to like having his name printed on them. You see one of them on this page. There are a few more on the previous pages – starting with Fort Dearborn – and on some of the album pages that follow.

Farley also had twenty upcoming stamps printed without gum on the back, and not perforated. He gave them to the president, who was a collector, and a few other people close to him. The public complained, since he was using his position to give his friends and family what would have been extremely rare and valuable philatelic items. These stamps became known as Farley’s Follies. To undo the situation, he had the post office issue publicly the stamps in massive numbers both perforated and imperforated. You can see them on the previous pages.

Note

The first four stamps on this page are the same as the ones on the souvenir sheet, except that they’re perforated and weren’t sold as a sourvenir sheet. The last four stamps that belong on this page are imperforated because they were part of a souvenir sheet, but cut out of the sheet. They’re not part of the Farley Follies mentioned above.

I’m not sure what’s the point of owning the souvenir sheet and the same souvenir sheet cut up. But that’s what Leuchtturm decided to do when designing this album page. I don’t have the ones cut out. I guess I’ll buy them, though. I hate having empty spaces. I could design my own page without them, but I don’t have a mount large enough for the souvenir sheet and I don’t feel like buying one – or designing a new page. Another alternative to buying the imperforated stamps would be to use Adobe Photoshop to remove the bottom four stamps from the scanned image. That’s tempting, but I’ll still have empty spots on my album page, even if they’re not visible here.

Contains 11 spots: own 11 – 11 unused, 0 used.
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Album or Web Page Last changed Mar 6, 2024

Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot	own	catalog	subject	description	comment
1.1	✓	773	California Pacific Expo San Diego, 1535 - 1935	3c (may 1935) comm., purple

Statehood

2.1	✓	776	Texas Statehood The Alamo in San Antonio	3c (mar 1936) comm., purple
2.2	✓	775	Michigan Statehood 100 Years	3c (nov 1935) comm., purple
2.3	✓	772	Connecticut Statehood Charles de Wolf Brownell	3c (apr 1935) comm., violet
3.1	✓	777	Rhode Island Statehood Roger Williams	3c (may 1936) comm., purple
3.2	✓	774	Boulder (Hoover) Dam Black Canyon, Colorado River	3c (sep 1935) comm., purple

Souvenir Sheet

4.1

✓

778

Third Intnl. Stamp Expo

12¢ (may 1936)
comm., lilac

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Souvenir Sheet - Singles

5.1	✓	778a	The Charter Oak Charles De Wolf Brownell	3c (may 1936) comm., lilac
5.2	✓	778b	California Pacific Expo San Diego, 1535 - 1935	3c (may 1936) comm., lilac
5.3	✓	778c	Michigan Statehood 100 Years	3c (may 1936) comm., lilac
5.4	✓	778d	Texas Statehood The Alamo in San Antonio	3c (may 1936) comm., lilac

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.