ISSUE 169 - January 3, 2025 - Stamp News Online Magazine
Yesterday in Mekeel's & Stamps
Source of the Design of the Beacon
Air Mail Stamp — Revisited
by Gregg A. Hopkins, Sr.
(From Mekeel's & Stamps, January 10, 2010, with images added)
Among many awards, Gregg Hopkins' exhibit, "The Production of the U.S. Air Mail Issue of 1928—The Beacon", has received multiple National Gold Medals, a World Series of Philately Platinum Award (99 point score) and multiple Single Frame Grand Awards (the most recent at StampShow 2009 in Pittsburgh).
As a researcher and exhibitor of the United States Air Mail Issue of 1928—I always enjoy reading articles devoted to this topic—The Beacon.
I read, with interest, the recent reprint of the 1937 Mekeel’s Weekly article by Harley G. Moorhead in Mekeel’s & Stamps October 9, 2009 issue. It had been many years since I had first seen the article.
Moorhead was Postmaster, Omaha, Nebraska and had written other articles on the subject including one for The Bureau Specialist. The primary subject of the Mekeel’s article was . . .
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