United States Postal Cards

UX198 to UX240
1995


UX198 20c Red Barn, multicolored, lithographed, issued January 3, 1995, in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania. Designed by Wendell Minor.


UX199 20c Old Glory, black, blue and red, lithographed, issued January 12, 1995. Although used as a 20c card, its denomination was designated as "G".


UX200-219 Set of twenty 20c Civil War Heroes, multicolored, lithographed, issued June 29, 1995 at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Designed by Mark Hess. These cards were sold shrink-wrapped in packages of 20 different cards for $7.95.

UX200 20c Monitor & Virginia
UX201 20c Robert E. Lee
UX202 20c Clara Barton
UX203 20c Ulysses S. Grant
UX204 20c Battle of Shiloh
UX205 20c Jefferson Davis
UX206 20c David Farragut
UX207 20c Frederick Douglass
UX208 20c Raphael Semmes
UX209 20c Abraham Lincoln
UX210 20c Harriet Tubman
UX211 20c Stand Watie
UX212 20c Joseph E. Johnston
UX213 20c Winfield Hancok
UX214 20c Mary Chesnut
UX215 20c Battle of Chancellorsville
UX216 20c William T. Sherman
UX217 20c Phoebe Pember
UX218 20c Stonewall Jackson
UX219 20c Battle of Gettysburg


UX220 20c American Clipper Ship, yellow, magenta, cyan and black, lithographed. More than a century after being disabled by a hurricane off the Bermuda coast, the clipper ship Great Republic set sail once again as the subject of the U.S. Postal Service's new American Clipper Ships postal card.

The 20-cent postal card was issued September 3, 1993 in Hunt Valley, MD, in conjunction with the BALPEX stamp show. The design of the card features the "sailing card" of the clipper ship Great Republic from the G.W. Blunt White Library Manuscript Collection at Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut.

The Great Republic was designed and built by Donald McKay, who also built the clipper ship Flying Cloud, featured on a 1985 U.S. postal card. Launched October 4, 1853, the Great Republic was considered to be the largest ship in the world at that time, and the largest wooden ship ever built. Only two months after being launched, the ship caught fire in New York while loading for Liverpool, England, and the remains were sold by the ship's underwriters.

The Great Republic was rebuilt at Greenspoint, Long Island, NY, and in February, 1855, sailed from New York to Liverpool in 13 days. The four-masted clipper was re-rigged as a three-masted ship in the early 1860s before being sold and renamed the Denmark. In 1872, the ship sprang a leak in a hurricane while en route from Rio de Janeiro to St. John, Canada, and was abandoned with 15 feet of water in the hold. Designed by Richard D. Sheaff.


UXC26 50c Soaring Eagle, multicolored, lithographed, offset, issued August 24, 1995 for international use. Issued in St. Louis, Missouri, during the StampShow 95 at the St. Louis Cervantes Convention Center.


Set of twenty 20c Comic Strip Classics, multicolored, lithographed, issued October 1, 1995 at Boca Raton, Florida. Each card has a larger cartoon on the reverse. This eries of cards was sold shrink-wrppaed in packages of 20 different cards for $7.95. This scan is of the related 32c stamps.

UX221 20c The Yellow Kid
UX222 20c Katzenjammer Kids
UX223 20c Little nemo in Slumberland
UX224 20c Bringing Up Father
UX225 20c Krazy Kat
UX226 20c Rube Goldberg's Inventions
UX227 20c Toonerville Folks
UX228 20c Gasoline Alley
UX229 20c Barney Google
UX230 20c Little Orphan Annie
UX231 20c Popeye
UX232 20c Blondie
UX233 20c Dick Tracy
UX234 20c Alley Oop
UX235 20c Nancy
UX236 20c Flash Gordon
UX237 20c Li'l Abner
UX238 20c Terry and the Pirates
UX239 20c Prince Valiant
UX240 20c Brenda Starr Reporter



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