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The Bureau Specialist  Volume XXVII - 1956
 
Bureau Issues Association, Publisher

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1956 Complete Year - 12 Issues Unbound  $25.00
1956 Complete Year - 12 Issues Hard Bound in Maroon Cloth, spine stamped in gilt - 342pp. plus index 
 note: each issue contains a "Plate Number Checklist" and most contain a plate varieties update
$40.00
January 1956 - Articles of Interest: Electric Eye Type II New Design: 360-Subject Format (Walter E. Hopper) - Soo Locks Issue (Sol Glass) - Plate Numbers on Liberty Series Bureau Precancels (Hugh C. MacDonald - extensive list) Available in Year Set Only
February 1956 - Articles of Interest:  New Stamp Varieties Due to Manufacturing Changes (George W. Brett) - Electric Eye Type II New Design: 180-Subject Format (Walter E. Hopper) - Flag Cancels on the 3¢ Stuart (Orville H. Milburn) - Horizontally Imperforate pane of 100 of the $1 Presidential (Scott 832a illustrated) - On Establishing a Postal History Nomenclature (Barbara R. Mueller) - Atoms for Peace Commemorative Issue (Sol Glass) - Plate Numbers on the Prexie Series Bureau Precancels (Hugh C. MacDonald - contd. - extensive list)  Available in Year Set Only

March 1956 - Articles of Interest: The Curling Problem in Rotary Press Dry Printing (George Brett) - Random Notes on the Electric Eyes ( Nathan Goldstein II) - Fort Ticonderoga Bicentennial Commemorative Issue (Sol Glass) - Major Error on the 6¢ Canal Zone Official Air Mail (Edward S. Conger) - Fancy Cancellations on the 3¢ Stuart (Dana A. Barrel - nicely illus.) - The Twelve Best Plate Varieties on the 2¢ Washington (Carolyn P. Kuhn - fully illustrated - amazingly does not include the Type II) - Basic Reference Material and Philatelic Literature for the Postal Historian of the Bureau Issues Period (Barbara Mueller) - Errors and Varieties on Bureau Precancels ( G. William Schall, incl. "SPPINGFIELD" ) 

 Available in Year Set Only
April 1956 - Articles of Interest: Ordinary Postage Stamp Series of 1954 50¢ Purple (Sol Glass) - Cartons and Carton Seals for Booklets (Dr. W. R. Kern) - Ordinary Postage Stamp Series of 1954 40¢ Brown (Sol Glass) - Mail Classifications (Barbara Mueller) - Canal Zone New Precancels - New Vertical Gum Breakers on "Dry" Printed Stamps (George Brett see also: Oct. 1956 for correction) - Plate Numbers on the Prexie Series Bureau Precancels (Hugh C. MacDonald - contd. - extensive list) - "Translucent" Paper on the Susan B. Anthony Commemorative Stamp (Norman W. Kempf)  Available in Year Set Only
May 1956 - Articles of Interest: The Making of Plate Numbers (George W. Brett -important, fascinating and informative article well-illustrated) - A Plate Variety on the Booklet Pane of the 2 1903 Scott 319g  (Dr. W. R. Kern) - Use of the Parcel Post and Parcel Post Postage Due Stamps  (Barbara Mueller) - Ordinary Postage Stamp Series of 1954 30¢ Gray (Sol Glass) - The "CALIF. VENTURA" Bureau Precancel Error (G. William Schall) Available in Year Set Only
June 1956 - Articles of Interest:  Ordinary Postage Stamp Series of 1954 $1 Purple (Sol Glass) - Inverted "F" on the 1927 20¢ Air Mail Issue (C. B. Durland) - Illustrated Covers (Barbara Mueller) - Ordinary Postage Stamp Series of 1954 ½¢ Orange (Sol Glass) - Watseka Illinois Precancel (James T. Boggs)  Available in Year Set Only
July 1956 - Articles of Interest: Ordinary Postage Stamp Series of 1954 6¢ Red (Sol Glass) - "Must Be Prepaid With Parcel Post Stamps" Booklet Cover (Dr. W. R. Kern) - Complete Plate Numbers on Coil Stamps (Norman Kempf) - The Big Show at New York FIPEX (George Brett) - Electric Eyes "Bureauprints" (Nathan Goldstein, II) - New York City Code Cancels (Barbara Mueller incl. an interesting Parcel Post Postage Due usage) - Kokomo, Indiana 2 and 52 Precancels (James Boggs) - Errors and Varieties on Bureau Precancels (G. William Schall)  Available in Year Set Only
August 1956 - Articles of Interest: Andrew W. Mellon Centennial Issue (Sol Glass) - The Big Show at New York FIPEX (George Brett contd.) - Part 1: The Special Delivery Service (Harold B. Billian - first in a long running series) - Glossary to the Bureau Precancels (William Schall) - "FULTON, N.Y." Bureau Precancel (James Boggs)   Available in Year Set Only
September 1956 - Articles of Interest: Ordinary Postage Stamp Series of 1954 1½¢ Brown (Sol Glass) - Booklet Plate Numbers Assigned/Cancelled (Dr. Kern) - Ordinary Postage Stamp Series of 1954 7¢ Maroon (Sol Glass) - A Preliminary Study of Air Mail Postage Rates (Barbara Mueller Part 1) - Quantities Issued of U.S. Postage Stamps in the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1954 - Plate Numbers on Bureau Precancels (Hugh C. MacDonald - extensive listing) - "ATCHISON, KANS." 102 Bureau Precancel (James Boggs) Available in Year Set Only
October 1956 - Articles of Interest: Production of the FIPEX Souvenir Sheet (George Brett) - Ordinary Postage Stamp Series of 1954 $5 Black (Sol Glass) - Ordinary Postage Stamp Series of 1954 20¢ Blue (Sol Glass) - Modified Designs on the 2¢ and 3¢ Series of 1954 (Nathan Goldstein) - Part 2: The Special Delivery Service (Harold B. Billian) - Quantities Issued of U.S. Postage Stamps in the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1954 - Plate Numbers on Bureau Precancels (Hugh C. MacDonald) - Precancel Errors and Varieties (William Schall incl "MILLS COLLEGE, CALIF.") - Strip of 3 of the rotary 1¢ Imperforate between Scott 543a illus.  Available in Year Set Only
November 1956 - Articles of Interest:  Labor Day Issue (Sol Glass) - "Dry" Printing Booklet Panes (Dr. Kern) - Benjamin Franklin Commemorative Issue (Sol Glass) - A Preliminary Study of Air Mail Postage Rates (Barbara Mueller Part 2) - Booker T. Washington Issue (Sol Glass) - Quantities Issued of U.S. Postage Stamps in the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1954 - Plate Numbers on Bureau Precancels (Hugh C. MacDonald) - Labor Day Issue (Sol Glass) - "PLAINVIEW, TEX." Bureau Precancel   Available in Year Set Only
December 1956 - Articles of Interest: The Latest at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (George Brett) - Ordinary Postage Stamp Series of 1954 9¢ Red (Sol Glass) - Quantities Issued of U.S. Postage Stamps in the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1954 - Part 3: The Special Delivery Service (Harold B. Billian) - Ordinary Postage Stamp Series of 1954 10¢ Brown (Sol Glass) - Precancel Errors and Varieties (William Schall) - "BIRD HAVEN, VA."  #121 Bureau Precancel   Available in Year Set Only
 

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