USPS President Jimmy Carter Inauguration with Washington Bicentennial Stamp

USPS on 20 January 1977 issued a special postmark cancellation marking the Inauguration of President Jimmy Carter. The postmark cancellation originated from Washington D.C. Cancellations from locations elsewhere in the United States, i.e, Plains, Georgia, may be found as well. The cachet shown here depicts an illustration of Carter and the Washington D.C. Capitol. The USPS postage stamp of General George Washington is from the Bicentennial series.

On 3 January  1977, USPS issued the 13-cent multicolored Washington at Princeton stamp to honour the 200th anniversary of George Washington’s victory over the British forces at Princeton, New Jersey. Designed by Bradbury Thompson and based on Charles Willson Peale's painting “George Washington at Princeton,” the stamp depicts Washington, Nassau Hall, Hessian prisoners, and a thirteen-star flag.

It has been suggested that this 1779 portrait was commissioned upon the order of Mrs. Washington because it is the only portrait in which Washington wears his state sword and because the painting descended from the Washington family.

The multicolored stamp was printed on the Bureau of Engraving and Printing seven-color Andreotti gravure press (601) as sheets of 160 subjects, tagged, perforated 11, and distributed as panes of forty (eight across, five down).

Source: Smithsonian National Postal Museum