John F. Kennedy in Chicago, Illinois For Sale
Full sheet of 50 five cent unused genuine U.S. postage stamps featuring President John F. Kennedy.
The five cents John Kennedy is the first United States postage stamp to pay tribute to President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. It was issued May 29, xxxx for his 47th birthday, with a first day of issue in his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts.
The overall shape of the stamp is a horizontal rectangle, a size standard for the time. The design consists of two side-by-side squares, the left one with a depiction of the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame, the right one with a portrait of Kennedy adapted from a photograph taken in xxxx by Bill Murphy for The Los Angeles Times. Textual inscriptions form a frame around the central design, and include a quotation from Kennedy's xxxx inaugural address "... And the glow from that fire can truly light the world.", along with Kennedy's full name and the years of his birth and death. The required "U.S. POSTAGE" inscription is positioned inconspicuously in small letters vertically next to the Eternal Flame, while the denomination is in the frame text. The stamp is in a single blue-gray color.
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