59-2x, 1959 U.S. Christmas Seals Sheet, pm D, full gum, F, MNH. Fresh, full gum, never folded, shipped flat. Scan is of a full sheet.
Issued 1959 by the National Tuberculosis Association (NTA).
Seals designed by Katherine La Bruce Rowe. Two different seal designs of children feeding birds alternate in horizontal rows of sheet, creating se-tenant pairs.
Sheet of 100 (10x10) seals; colors: yellow, red, green, and black. Seal size: 23x16mm, perf 11. Printer's Mark: "D" located behind the boy above his foot on seal #56. Union label on margin. Perforated margin at top inscribed, "Christmas Seals Help Protect The Family Circle."
NOTE: Sheets of 1959 Christmas Seals were printed by 6 different printers. They can be identified by a tiny black E, D, F, W, R, or B on seal #56.
Christmas Seals are also known as TB Charity Seals, and are usually classified as Charity Seals, or Cinderella Stamps.
