Odd plate block covers

U.S. Stamp Notes by John M. Hotchner

If you’re a fan of plate blocks on cover, I’ve got two unusual examples to show you in this week’s column. The first is a first-day cover for the 15¢ James Buchanan Presidential, or Prexie, series stamp (Scott 820) issued Oct. 27, 1938.

Shown in Figure 1 is the only example I’ve seen in which the person preparing the cover added a plate block of the stamp being replaced by the 1938 15¢ James Buchanan Prexie stamp, that being the 1923 15¢ Statue of Liberty stamp (Scott 566) of the Fourth Bureau Issue.

I’m thinking that whoever created this cover likely did the same thing for some or all of the other Prexie series issues. Have readers seen other similar first-day plate block covers from the Prexie series? If so, please send me a note at jmhstamp@verizon.net.

The second cover, pictured in ...

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