Historic American Flags

Historic American Flags. - Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge, 1968. - 49 p.: postage stamps; 72x55 mm.

Bleu niger morocco gilt binding by Proost and Brandt, edges gilt. Printed by Joh. Enschedé in Haarlem (The Netherlands) on Ingres Bütten paper with types Romulus and Cancelleresca Bastarda designed by Jan van Krimpen. 2000 copies.


Jan van Krimpen (1842-1958); dutch typographer and designer. Most of his types were meant for manual printing. His Romulus family of types (1931) including Cancelleresca (1935) is still used and well known in the US through the Limited Editions Club.


On July 4, 1968 the Unites States Post Office Department issued a series of ten stamps with historic flags. These stamps show flags used by colonists in the Revolutionary War. St Onge made use of this series as illustration for this miniature book. For Historic American Flags see: http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/flags/revflags.shtml