Wives Of Any US American Presidents

Here is an interesting stamp.

Is the topic of your thread Eleanor Roosevelt stamps such as this?



Or wives of any US Presidents such as these:



(NOTE: For the record, the image of the Martha Washington Stamp was taken from Wiki after 12 Midnight on 01/18/2012. How? You can still search and download the images that may be contained on Wiki even if they have "blacked out" their text.)

Martha was certainly a popular 1st lady for stamps in the early 20th century.





note- the second stamp is from the web. Both my copies are in terrible shape.

Well, sometimes the old husband has to come along.
First time for me to hear about Dagestan...

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PANAMA - Scott 343 and C74
Eleanor Roosevelt :



Defensora de los derechos humanos = Human rights defender

Eleanor Roosevelt at a spinning wheel, printed by photogravure, and issued by India on December 10, 1963 to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Scott No. 379.

- nethryk

I'd completely forgotten about this one ... it's what happens when such stamps are part of a larger series:

An interesting article in a recent edition of Canadian Stamp News pointed out that while Martha Washington was the first First Lady on a US stamp, she was not the first woman.

That honour goes to Queen Isabella on the 1892 Columbian issues.
Interesting in that not only was the first woman on a US stamp not an American, she was also a foreign monarch, especially after that whole American Revolution thing that distanced themselves from another foreign monarch.

The article also found it interesting that the Columbian series celebrated Columbus's 'discovery' of America, when he never even landed in what is now the United States. But that could just be picking nits.

Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, designed by Imre von Mosdóssy (1904-1995), printed by lithography (De La Rue de Colombia), and issued by Paraguay on July 30, 1964 to honor her for founding the Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Foundation, Scott No. 830.

- nethryk

Here is an image of another stamp featuring a portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, designed by Polish artist Andrzej Heidrich (1928- ), engraved by Edward Konecki, and issued by Poland on October 10, 1964 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Roosevelt's birth, Scott No. 1272.

- nethryk

I don't have one but what about that reply card - postal stationery with Martha Washington on it? This thread would be a good fit for that one.

She looks a little like my Aunt Jean.

As in this example?

How about a cover sent by a first Lady ? No postage necessary, must be nice......

Just yesterday I read that widows of US presidents were given free franking privilege. President Calvin Coolidge died in Jan 1933.

ISRAEL 1964
Eleanor Roosevelt with tab