Commemorative Stamp Panels USA - 4 albums!

I’m selling my USA stamp collection of commemorative panels. The panels contain the unused stamps the USPS – United Postal Service issued between 1994 and 2000.

Panels are in four light brownish albums with a gold logo and the text “Commemorative Collections” in gold on the front.

I have decided to sell these because I quit collecting stamps in the year 2000 and nobody of my friends or family is into stamp collecting.

Photos of all panels in the collection are here, however, these photos don’t do them justice. They merely give you an idea of how beautiful they are. I quit stamp collecting because my orders were always held up by customs, and the amount of sales tax and import duties made collecting quite expensive. Some even were never delivered.

The drawings on the panels are engraved and the stamps are mounted neatly in place, never taken out.

As you will see from the long list, a few issues are missing. Not too many though. The one-sheet panels were US$4.95, the double-sheet panels $12.95.

Commemorative Panels have been issued by the US Postal Service since the Wildlife issue of 1972. Each 8-1/2 x 11-1/4-inch Panel is printed on card stock with engraved vignettes on issues prior to 2002 or with photo-engravings and artwork on issues starting with 2002.

Each Panel also includes subject-related text and a mint block of four stamps affixed to the Panel in a mount (although strips of stamps, larger blocks and even full sheets have been provided for certain issues, in some cases even requiring two panels). Commemorative Panels have been issued for every US commemorative stamp. They are available by subscription from the USPS.

A lot of money, patience, and frustration went into this collection, so please bid accordingly.

Note: The "Movie Monsters " issue has a special feature (a few others may have too), and a special "reader" is being sent to the winner of this auction. It's called a stamp decoder. The one you will receive has never been opened. Manual on how to use this decoder is included of course.

The following issues are packed in these four albums:

1994:

These are some loose panels that convinced me to become a collector.

- 445: Popular Singers
- 447: Jazz Singers/Blues Singers
- 448: Wonders of the Seas

1995:

- 457: Love
- 458 Recreational Sports
- 459: POW & MIA
- 460: Marilyn Monroe
- 461: Texas Statehood
- 462: Great Lakes Lighthouses
- 463: United Nations
- 464: Carousel Horses
- 465: Jazz Musicians
- 466: Women’s Suffrage
- 467: Louis Armstrong
- 468: WWII – 1945 Victory at last
- 469: Garden Flowers
- 470: Republic of Palau
- 471: Season’s Greetings ‘95
- 472: U.S. Naval Academy
- 473: Tennessee Williams
- 474: Grotto’s Madonna
- 475: James K. Polk
- 476: Antique Automobiles

1996:

- 477: Utah – 1896-1996
- 478: Winter Garden Flowers
- 479: Ernest E. Just
- 480: Smithsonian Institution
- 481: Happy New Year
- 482: Pioneers of communication
- 483: Fulbright Scholarships
- 484: Missing panel
- 485: Marathon
- 486: Georgia O’Keeffe
- 487: Tennessee – 1796-1996
- 488: James Dean
- 489: Prehistoric Animals
- 490: Breast Cancer Awareness
- 491: American Indian Dances
- 492: Folk Heroes
- 493: Centennial of the Olympic Games
- 494: Iowa Statehood 1846
- 495: Rural Free Delivery
- 496: Riverboats
- 497: Big Band Leaders
- 498: Song Writers
- 499: Endangered Species
- 499: Endangered Species – full sheet
- 500: Family Scenes
- 501: Hanukkah
- 502: Madonna and Child

1997:

- 503: Missing Panel
- 504: Happy New Year
- 505: Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.
- 506: Love
- 507: Helping Children Learn
- 508: Stagecoach and Ship
- 509: Thornton Wilder
- 510: Raoul Wallenberg
- 511: The world of Dinosaurs
- 511: The world of Dinosaurs – full sheet
- 512: Bugs Bunny
- 513: Benjamin Franklin – Pacific 97
- 514: George Washington – Pacific 97
- 515: The Marshall Plan
- 516: Missing Panel
- 517: Football Coaches
- 518: Missing Panel
- 519: Humphrey Bogart
- 520: Stars & Stripes Forever!
- 521: Opera Singers
- 522: Classical Composers & Conductors
- 523: Padre Varela
- 524: Air Force
- 525: Movie Monsters
- 526: Supersonic Flight
- 527: Women in military service
- 528: Kwanzaa
- 529: Sano di Pietro Madonna
- 530: American Holly

1998:

- 531: Happy New Year!
- 532: Winter Sports
- 533: Madam C.J. Walker
- 533A: Celebrate the century 1900s
- 533A: The dawn of the 20th century – full sheet
- 533B: Celebrate the century 1910s
- 533B: America looks beyond its borders
- 534: Spanish American War – Remember the Maine (two identical panels)
- 535: Flowering Trees
- 536: Alexander Calder
- 537: Cinco de Mayo
- 538: Sylvester & Tweety
- 538A: Celebrate the century 1920s
- 538A: The Roaring Twenties – full sheet
- 539: Wisconsin – 1848-1998
- 540: Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition – Western cattle in storm
- 540: Bi-color re-issue of the Trans-Mississippi stamp designs – full sheet
- 541: Folk Musicians
- 542: Berlin Airlift – 1948-1949
- 543: Spanish settlement of the Southwest – 1598
- 544: Gospel Singers
- 545: Steven Vincent Benét
- 546: Tropical Birds
- 546A: Breast Cancer
- 547: Alfred Hitchcock
- 548: Organ & Tissue Donation
- 549: Bright Eyes
- 550: Klondike Gold Rush
- 551: Four centuries of American Art
- 551: Four centuries of American Art – full sheet
- 551A: Celebrate the century 1930s
- 551A: Depression, Dust Bowl, and a new Deal – full sheet
- 552: Ballet
- 553: Space Discovery
- 554: Philanthropy
- 555: Florentine Madonna and Child
- 556: Wreaths

1999:

- 557: Happy New Year!
- 558: Malcolm X
- 559: Love
- 560: Victorian Love
- 561: Hospice Care
- 562: Celebrate the century 1940s
- 562: World War II transforms America – full sheet
- 563: Irish Immigration
- 564: Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne
- 565: Arctic Animals
- 566: Nature of America – Sonoran Desert
- 566: Sonoran Desert – full sheet
- 567: Daffy Duck
- 568: Ayn Rand
- 569: Cinco de Mayo
- 570: John & William Bartram
- 571: Celebrate the century 1950s
- 571: Family fun, Suburbia and nuclear threats – full sheet
- 572: Prostate cancer awareness
- 573: California Gold Rush
- 574: Aquarium Fish
- 575: Xtreme Sports
- 576: American glass
- 577: James Cagney
- 578: Honoring those who served
- 579: All Aboard! 20th century trains
- 580: Frederick Law Olmsted
- 581: Hollywood Composers
- 582: Celebrate the century 1960s
- 582: The rebellious sixties and man on the moon – full sheet
- 583: Broadway Songwriters
- 584: Insects & Spiders
- 584: Insects & Spiders – full sheet
- 585: Hanukkah
- 586: North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
- 587: Bartolomeo Vivarini Madonna and Child
- 588: Greetings: Deer
- 589: Kwanzaa
- 590: Celebrate the century ‘70s
- 590: Bicentennial, Watergate and Earth Day – full sheet
- 591: Year 2000

2000:

- 592: Happy New Year!
- 593: Celebrate the century 1980s
- 593: Space shuttle launched, Berlin Wall falls – full sheet
- 594: Patricia Roberts Harris
- 595: U.S. Navy Submarines
- 596: Pacific Coast rain forest
- 596: Pacific Coast rain forest – full sheet
- 597: Louise Nevelson
- 598: Edwin Powel Hubble (twice)
- 599: American Samoa
- 600: Library of Congress
- 601: Will E. Coyote and Road Runner
- 602: Celebrate the century 1990s
- 602: Celebrate the century 1990s – full sheet
- 603: Summer Sports
- 604: Adoption
- 605: Youth Team Sports
- 606: Distinguished Soldiers
- 607: The Stars & Stripes
- 607: The Stars & Stripes – full sheet
- 608: Legends of Baseball
- 608: Legends of Baseball – full sheet
- 609: Stampin’ the future
- 610: Edward G. Robinson
- 611: California Statehood
- 612: Deep See Creations
- 613: Thomas Wolfe
- 614: The White House

Happy Bidding!

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A note regarding shipping: These albums weigh about 8 kgs, so together with protective shipping makes 10 kgs. There's a shipping calculator on bpost.be available in Dutch, English, French and German.