Postage Stamps of the United States First Issued in 1881 Presidents: 1/1-3/3: Rutherford B. Hayes  ·  3/4-9/20: James Garfield  ·  9/20-12/31: Chester A. Arthur Postmasters General: 1/1-3/4: Horace Maynard  ·  3/5-12/19: Thomas L. James  ·  12/20-12/31: Timothy O. Howe Domestic Letter Rate: 3¢ / 1/2 oz. ·  Card Rate: 1¢ ·  Registry Fee: 10¢ ·  Foreign Rate: 5¢ Ordinary Postage Stamps First Issued in 1881 - Re-Engraved    American Bank Note Company - Soft Porous Paper - Perf 12 - 200 Subject Plates One Cent Gray Blue Franklin - August 1881 Three Cent Blue Green Washington - July 16, 1881 The following postage stamp varieties were first issued by the U.S. in 1881: Ordinary issue: 1c Franklin - 3c Washington Scott 206 - One Cent Gray Blue Franklin - EDU: Nov. 2, 1881 - over 2 billion issued Scott 207 - Three Cent Blue Green Washington - EDU: August 7, 1881 - about 1.5 billion issued American Bank Note Company Special Printing - Design of 1869 Pictorial:  Scott 133a - One Cent Brown Orange Franklin - est. less than 15,000 sold Commemoratives: The First Commemorative stamps were not issued until 1893 Special Delivery: The First Special Delivery stamps were not issued until 1885 Postage Dues: No new varieties of the Postage Due stamps were issued in 1881                   Previous: 1880 Next: 1882

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