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First U.S. Air Mail Booklet

from August 2010, U.S. Stamp News Magazine

by Jeremy A. Lefsey

In 1928, ten years after the first air mail stamp was issued in 1918, the United Post Office Department issued the first U.S. Air Mail booklet. It contained six 10 cent stamps, i.e. two panes of three enclosed between interleaving and two light cardboard covers to protect the stamps. The price of the booklet was $.61, not the $.60 face value of the stamps. The stamps contained in the booklet commemorated Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's transatlantic flight in May 1927.

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