#C11 - 5¢ Rocky Mtn. Beacon - carmine & blue

Increased volume of mail being sent by air enabled the Post Office Department to lower airmail rates in 1928 from 10¢ to 5¢ per ounce. The new 5¢ stamps showed a beacon light atop Sherman Hill in Wyoming, one of the landmarks that made it possible for pilots to find their way cross-country at night. The bi-colored stamp was expensive and time-consuming to produce. After two years, it was replaced by a different and more economical single-colored stamp.

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