5 thoughts on “U.S. Scott Catalogue Update (August 2019)”

1. So, is this issue a souvenir sheet? Scott has assigned letters to each individual stamp, with the whole pane getting the Scott number! The Ellsworth Kelly issue was assigned a Scott number for each of individual stamps on the pane

   • You’re referring to Sesame Street, Richard?

   • According to Marty Frankevicz of Scott Publishing (Amos Media), the stamps in the Ellsworth Kelly (booklet) pane get individual numbers because each pane has two blocks of 10 stamps, or the designs are repeated twice in each pane. The Sesame Street designs are not repeated within the pane.

     “One does not have to collect the full pane of Kelly stamps to get each different stamp, so we give each stamp its own separate major number. Each stamp in the Sesame Street pane gets its own different number, but they are minor listings because in order to get all of the stamps you need to get the entire pane. The entire pane is given the major listing because that is what is most likely to be collected.”

     Sesame Street is just a pane of stamps, not a souvenir sheet.

     “While there is no formal definition for what a souvenir sheet is, I have generally used the term for sheets having 1, 2 or 3 different stamps, and for sheets of any size that reprint in one sheet all of the stamps of a set, where those stamps were also available singly on separate sheets.”

2. So I am guessing that the Scott numbering scheme has changed over the years? Some full panes of stamps, the 1976 Bicentennial State Flags comes to mind (and other full panes) have individual Scott numbers assigned to them and not letters.

   I apologize for bringing up the Ellsworth Kelly issue as an example, I realized that this was not a full pane of different designs.

   • Richard, everything changes over 40+ years. Stamp collecting overall has certainly changed, right?

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