United States, Scott #3812, used(o), 2003, Honoring Roy Acuff (1903-1992), a country music singer and musician, he is often credited with moving country music from its early string band an yokel format to the singer-based format that helped bring it out of the barn and make it internationally successful; he began his music career in Appalachia as a touring musician in a medicine show; the purpose of a musician in a medicine show was to draw the people of the town to the the show at which the promoter could sell patent medicines of suspect quality, after leaving the medicine show circuit, he gained regional fame as the singer and fiddler for his group, the Smoky Mountain Boys; he joined the Grand Ole Opry radio music show in Nashville, Tennessee in 1938, and he remained one of the Opry's key figures and promoters for nearly four decades, producing such greats as: ‘Lord, Build Me a Cabin’, ‘Great Speckled Bird’, ‘Lonesome River Blues’, and ‘Wabash Cannonball’; 37 cents, serpentine die cut simulated perforation: 11, issued on non-water soluble self-adhesive panes, photogravure printed by Avery Dennison, black and white, Scott 2025 catalog value: 25¢. Very slightly off-centered extremely fine), horizontal, black-inked, wavy line cancellation over the top half of the stamp and into the main image, good perforations, stamp was soaked from the mailing envelope using the Bestine solvent and placed on a piece of black trimmed card stock for an attractive and uniform album appearance, centering and mounting 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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