Dgn 216: Sc. U659 Benjamin Franklin No. 6¾ plain envelope with a Dragon Cards label cachet, tied by the First Day of Issue hand cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$2.50

Dgn 216b: Sc. U659 Benjamin Franklin No. 10 plain envelope with a Dragon Cards label cachet, tied by the First Day of Issue hand cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$2.50

Dgn 216d: Sc. U659 Benjamin Franklin No. 6¾ plain envelope with a Dragon Cards label cachet, tied by the First Day of Issue hand cancel.lus 3 Sc. 1690 BF with the Philadelphia January 17th birthday postmark. — larger illustration (new window)...$3.50

Dgn 216e: Sc. U659/4021-4 Benjamin Franklin — A pair from the block of four on each of a set of two of the Sc. U659 No. 6¾ plain envelopes with a Dragon Cards label cachet, tied by the First Day of Issue hand cancel for the envelopes. Each has a pair of 4021-4 and the stamps' first-day hand cancel (circular date stamp). — larger illustration (new window)...$6.50

Dgn 228: Sc. 4021-4 Benjamin Franklin — 5"x7" Dragon Card with a patriotic portrait of Franklin, and two vertical pairs of the stamps, tied with the First Day of Issue hand cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$4.00

Dgn 228d: Sc. 4021-4/2749 Benjamin Franklin — Dgn 228 (5"x7" Dragon Card with a patriotic portrait of Franklin, and two vertical pairs of the stamps, tied with the First Day of Issue hand cancel) plus the Franklin stamp from Britain's 2010 set honoring the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society. The Royal Mail stamp is tied by a first-day pictorial cancel.howing a key and lightning bolt.. — larger illustration (new window)...$6.00

NUMBERING NOTE: The three plain-envelope cachets for this issue are the same size, although the No. 9 and No. 10 versions were printed 3 to a page (versus 6 for the #6¾) and have more "white space" to the right of the design so that the cancel.ies the cachet to the envelope. However, it was discovered that special versions of the design were needed for each of the three window envelope sizes, and these were given different "Dgn" numbers.

Dgn 220: Sc. 3987/3990 Children's Book Animals — 5"x7" Dragon Card with color art of chldren reading a book. U.S. Very Hungry Caterpillar and Maisy stamps with their First Day of Issue hand cancel, matching UK stamps with the Stratford-Upon-Avon Very Hungry Caterpillar hand cancel, only available in Britain. — larger illustration (new window)...$7.50

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Dgn 220a: Sc. 3988-89/3991-4 Children's Book Animals — 5"x7" Dragon Card with color art of children reading a book. The 6 other U.S. stamps plus the U.S. postmark, to complete the set begun with Dgn 220. — larger illustration (new window)...$3.00

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Winter Olympics 2006

Dgn 221: Sc. 3995 Winter Olympics — 5"x7" Dragon Card with color art of a downhill skier and 5 interlocking rings, First Day of Issue hand cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$2.50

Dgn 221c: Sc. 3995 Winter Olympics — 5"x7" Dragon Card with color art of a downhill skier and 5 interlocking rings, plus Sc. 2369 1988 Winter Olympics stamp, also a downhill skier. First Day of Issue hand cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$3.00

Dgn 222: Sc. 3995 Winter Olympics — 5"x7" Dragon Card with a color photo of Didier Cuche of Switzerland in action during training for the FIS Ski World Cup Men's Downhill competition, November 24, 2005, in Lake Louise, Alberta. First Day of Issue hand cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$2.50

Year of the Dog

Dgn 223: Sc. 3997k Year of the Dog — Single from the 12-stamp sheet on a 5"x7" Dragon Card showing a dog and fireworks. First Day of Issue hand cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$2.50

Dgn 223a: Sc. 3997k Year of the Dog — Single from the 12-stamp sheet on a 5"x7" Dragon Card showing a dog and fireworks. First Day of Issue hand cancel.ith 2 previous Clarence Lee U.S. Year of the Dog stamps (29¢ and 37¢) . — larger illustration (new window)...$3.50

Dgn 223b: Sc. 2140 Year of the Dog — Canadian stamp only on the same 5"x7" Dragon Card showing a dog and fireworks. First Day of Issue hand cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$2.50

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Dgn 223c: Sc. 3997k Year of the Dog — Single from the 12-stamp sheet on a 5"x7" Dragon Card showing a dog and fireworks. First Day of Issue hand cancel.ith Sc. 2140 Canadian Year of the Dog stamp and its own first-day cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$3.50

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Dgn 223d: Sc. 3997k Year of the Dog — Single from the 12-stamp sheet on a 5"x7" Dragon Card showing a dog and fireworks. First Day of Issue hand cancel.ith other dog stamps: Sc. 1307 Humane Treatment and 2098-2101 Dogs (8 breeds) . — larger illustration (new window)...$5.00

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Dgn 224: Sc. 3997 Lunar New Year — Full sheet intact on a 8½"x11" Dragon Card, First Day of Issue and CDS hand cancels . — larger illustration (new window)...$8.00

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Hattie McDaniel

In retrospect, each of the Hattie McDaniel designs should have had its own "Dgn" number. While the designs are similar, 225b, 225c and 225d are different from the "main" design.

Dgn 225: Sc. 3996 Hattie McDaniel — 5"x7" Dragon Card with a B&W photo, First Day of Issue hand cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$2.50

Dgn 225a: Sc. 3996 Hattie McDaniel — same design, combo with Will Rogers (in "Judas Priest" with her), Bing Crosby (recommended her for GWTW), Paul Dunbar (favorite poet), Ethel Waters (friend and frequent rival), Count Basie and Duke Ellington (frequent guests at her parties), and Martin Luther King, Jr., who sang in the choir at GWTW premiere which she declined to attend. — larger illustration (new window)...$7.00

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Dgn 225b: Sc. 3996 Hattie McDaniel — 5"x7" Dragon Card with a B&W photo, and Sc. 2168 Margaret Mitchell and Sc. 2446 Gone With The Wind stamps, First Day of Issue hand cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$5.00

Dgn 225c: Sc. 3996 Hattie McDaniel — 5"x7" Dragon Card with a B&W photo, text about "Show Boat," and Sc. 2767 Show Boat, 3834 Paul Robeson, 3433 Edna Ferber, and Sc. 2115 Jerome Kern stamps. She and Robeson were featured in the 1936 film and, separately, in touring companies of the stage show, based on book by Ferber, music by Kern. First Day of Issue hand cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$6.00

Dgn 225d: Sc. 3996 Hattie McDaniel — 5"x7" Dragon Card with a B&W photo, text about how she was honored at the NY World's Fair in 1940 (Sc. 853), by Eleanor Roosevelt (2105) and presented with then-new Emancipation Proclamation stamps (902). First Day of Issue hand cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$3.50

Buckeye Butterfly

Dgn 226: Sc. 4000 Buckeye Butterfly — 5"x7" Dragon Card with color art of a buckeye butterfly in flight. With 2 of the 13¢ 1977 butterfly stamps, Sc. 1712-13 Swallowtail and Checkerspot, all tied by First Day of Issue hand cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$2.50

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Polio Pioneers (Salk & Sabin)

Dgn 227: Sc. 3428/3435 Polio Pioneers — 5"x7" Dragon Card with a B&W photo of a little girl being given the polio vaccine in 1954. Salk and Sabin stamps, plus Sc. 1087 Polio (1957). Salk First Day of Sale pictorial cancel.rom Pittsburgh (nationwide release) . — larger illustration (new window)...$4.00

Sugar Ray Robinson

Dgn 229: Sc. 4020 Sugar Ray Robinson — 5"x7" Dragon Card with picture of the boxer in a fighting pose, art of a boxing ring and gloves First Day of Issue pictorial hand cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$2.50

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Dgn 229a: Sc. 4020 Sugar Ray Robinson — 5"x7" Dragon Card with picture of the boxer in a fighting pose, art of a boxing ring and gloves First Day of Issue pictorial hand cancel.ies U.S. Joe Louis stamp (Sc.2766, 1993) and Austria's 2006 Mohammad Ali stamps. Sugar as a boy in Detroit would carry Louis' gym bag, later toured with him in the Army during WWII. Sugar also mentored the young. — larger illustration (new window)...$5.00

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Dgn 229b: Sc. 4020 Sugar Ray Robinson — 5"x7" Dragon Card with picture of the boxer in a fighting pose, art of a boxing ring and gloves First Day of Issue pictorial hand cancel.ies earlier US stamps featuring boxers: Joe Louis (2766), Jack Dempsey (3183m) and Rocky Marciano (3187k) . — larger illustration (new window)...$4.00

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Art of Disney: Romance

Dgn 230: Sc. 4025-8 Disney: Romance — block of 4 on a 5"x7" Dragon Card showing cartoon art of a lion and lioness in love. First Day of Issue pictorial hand cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$4.00

Dgn 230c: Sc. 4025-8 Disney: Romance — block of 4 plus other 2006 Love stamps on a 5"x7" Dragon Card showing cartoon art of a lion and lioness in love. First Day of Issue pictorial hand cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$5.00

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