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Dgn 5u: Sc. 2097 Roberto Clemente — 5"x7" Dragon Card, printed portrait of the Pittsburgh Pirates star, quotation, and Pittsburgh GMF (General Mail Facility) green double-ring hand cancel. Although he played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, the stamp was issued in his hometown in Puerto Rico. We flew the stamp to Pittsburgh for this unofficial-city cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$7.50

Dgn 10: Sc. 2211 Duke Ellington — 5"x7" brown-on-tan Dragon Card reproducing a record album; First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration (new window)...$2.50

Dgn 39 was an experiment in production: The cards were produced on an office photocopier, and the color illustration at a commercial copy center using then-new color xerography. While photocopying the base cards allowed for great flexibility in design, the cardstock frequently jammed in the photocopier or didn't feed straight. As many were thrown out as used. It was very frustrating.

The color pictures were produced on one sheet as multiple images, and then cut apart and pasted onto the base cards. The first commercial copy center approached refused the job unless proof of licensing of the image was shown. Another copy center did the work anyway.

The experiment was not repeated, although by 2000, color xerography had become cheaper and was able to print directly to cards, eliminating the need for the system used for Dgn 39.

Dgn 45: Sc. 3096a Big Bandleaders — block of four on a 5"x7" blue-on-cream Dragon Card, First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration (new window)...$3.50

Dgn 45c: Sc. 3096a Big Bandleaders — block of four on a 5"x7" blue-on-cream Dragon Card, with Sc. 1252 American Music. First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration (new window)...$4.25

Dgn 45pb: Sc. 3096a Big Bandleaders — Plate block of 4; First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration (new window)...$4.00

Dgn 46: Sc. 3096-3099 Big Bandleaders — Set of 4 FDC-size cards, navy-on-cream, one for each stamp with photos of the leaders — larger illustration (new window)...$6.00

Dgn 46a: Sc. 3096 Count Basie — single from the Big Bandleaders block on a FDC-size navy-on-cream Dragon Card — larger illustration (new window)...$3.00

Dgn 47: Sc. 3096 Count Basie — single from the Big Bandleaders block of 4, with Sc. 2211 Ellington, on a blue-on-cream FDC- size card, showing Basie & Ellington together in a recording session, First Day of Issue hand cancel — larger illustration (new window)...$3.50

Dgn 60: Sc. 3183c Century: George Washington Carver — single from the Celebrate the Century series on a 5"x7" sepia-on-cream Dragon Card, with a portrait of Carver — larger illustration (new window)...$3.00

Dgn 60a: Sc. 3183c Century: GW Carver — single from the Celebrate the Century series on a 5"x7" sepia-on-cream Dragon Card, with a portrait of Carver, with Sc. 958 George Washington Carver from 1948 — larger illustration (new window)...$4.00

Dgn 84: Sc. 3187f School Desegregation — single from the Celebrate the Century 1950s sheet on a blue-on-cream 5"x7" Dragon Card, silhouette of schoolhouse and children superimposed on a photo of U.S. Supreme Court building — larger illustration (new window)...$3.00

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