United States, Scott #2734, used(o), 1993, First Set in the Legends of American Music Series; this set celebrating the Performers in Rock and Roll and Rhythm and Blues, the Legends series continued until 1999 with more than 70 artists honored from all styles of music, from rock and roll, through country and western, opera, and gospel, to folk music, including composers, lyricists, songwriters, and musicals; this stamp is the fourth stamp in a se-tenant booklet strip of eight stamps, with a smaller design than the sheet stamps with a similar image, and with a black frame surrounding the image versus no frame in the sheet stamps, stamp shows Ritchie Valens (1941-1959); Valens (born Richard Steven Valenzuela) was one of the young pioneers of Chicano and Latin rock, and perhaps the first Latino performer to make the cross over to mainstream rock and roll; his first hit song ‘Donna’ was followed by his blockbuster adaptation of the Mexican folk song ‘La Bamba’; he tragically died, at age 17, in the plane crash in 1959 that also killed rock stars Buddy Holly and ‘Big Bopper’ J.P. Richardson; 29 cents, photogravure printed by the American Banknote Company, perforated: 11 horizontal, multicolored, Scott 2019 Catalog Value: 25¢, nicely centered, double strike cancels, both very faint, half circular, blue-inked, single-rimmed, socked-on-the-nose cancellations, one on the upper left border, and the second on the upper right border, with both well clear of the main image, sound back, good perforations; centering and image clear cancel warrants a selling price premium. This is not a 'bait-and-switch;' the stamp you see will be the one you receive.
Please review my terms of sale. If you are not ordering from the United States, there is a $US1.55 additional postage expense that needs to be added to the price of the stamp. If you are ordering from the United States, there is only a $US0.68 added postage expense. Also, if you make additional purchases from my offerings, they can all go in one mailing at no extra shipping expense for the added purchases. I will send the purchase by US first class mail, since the relatively low value of the stamp does not warrant signature or tracking mail. Hence the buyer assumes risk of loss or non-delivery. I will keep a scan of my mailing to verify that the correct mailing address was used. If not satisfied, return the stamp to me at your own expense, and I will refund the cost, but not my postage to you. If the stamp is not as described, I will refund the cost and reimburse you for postage both ways.
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