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	Register & Vote Issue   1968                                           Issued postage to publicize the campaign to draw more voters to the polls.  The weathervane is from an old house in the Russian Hill Section of San Francisco California.  The eagle weathervane stamp was designed by Norman Todhunter and Bill Hyde for the 1968 issue.
	Peace on Earth     1974                                                     Issued postage for the 1974 Christmas season. Designed by Don Hedin and Robert Geisman, the stamp features the dove weathervane designed by President George Washington for the cupola prominently a top his Mount Vernon home.
	Christmas    1965                                                             Issued postage for the 1965 Christmas season. The fourth United States Christmas stamp to be issued. Designed by Robert Jones of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing after a watercolor by Lucille Gloria Chabot as part of The WPC Project of 1939. The original painting is part of the Index of American Design in the National Gallery of Arts, Washington. The weathervane depicted is a Angel with trumpet from the Peoples Methodist Church in Newbury Port, Massachusetts. The weathervane was created in 1840 by Gould + Hazlett, Boston Massachusetts.
	The "H" Rate Stamp  1998                                                    A colorful stamp that depicts a rooster weathervane... A classic illustration of a  traditional image of a weathervane