Talk:World Stamp Catalogue/United States

I just added the module World Stamp Catalogue/United States, which is a copy of what I had created as a Commons article (Stamps of the United States) based on the US stamp images there. I have not yet made an attempt to conform to the World Stamp Catalogue format or content. I mainly wanted to provide an indication of what US stamp images are available on Wikimedia Commons. Feel free to do any constructive reformatting that would help. Some scans from my personal collection are shown in commons:User:Nonenmac/postage stamps. — Nonenmac 03:06, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Tentative numbering system for US stamps
Based on World Stamp Catalogue/Numbering System the following numbering system is being tried for US stamps

Format : CCC - YYYY - SSDD - TTKK ---         Example : USA - 1851 - 0101 - 3201 where  : CCC  = 3-letter country code (USA = United States) YYYY = 4-digit year of issue (1851 = Year of issue) SS  = 2-digit series order (varies by year) (01 = first (and only) series for 1851) DD  = 2-digit denomination order (varies by series) (01 = 1-cent, 02 = 3-cent, 03 = 5-cent, etc.) TT  = 2-digit type and subtype (varies by denomination), (31 = Type III, 32 = Type IIIa) KK  = 2-digit color variation (varies by denomination), (01 = first (and only) color for this denomination (blue))

USA-1847
USA-1847-0100      1847 Regular Issue USA-1847-0101      5-cent Franklin        Sc# -- --     --- USA-1847-0101-0001     red brown            1 USA-1847-0101-0002    dark brown           1a USA-1847-0101-0003    orange brown         1b USA-1847-0101-0004    red orange           1c USA-1847-0101-0005    brown orange         1d USA-1847-0102      10-cent Washington     Sc# -- --     --- USA-1847-0102-0001     black                2

USA-1851
USA-1851-0100      1851 Regular Issue USA-1851-0101      1-cent Franklin        Sc# -- --     --- USA-1851-0101-1001  1   blue               18 USA-1851-0101-1101 1a  blue               (?) USA-1851-0101-1201 1b  blue               19 USA-1851-0101-1301 1c  blue               19b USA-1851-0101-2001 2   blue               20 USA-1851-0101-3001 3   blue               21 USA-1851-0101-3101 3a  blue               22 USA-1851-0101-4001 4   blue               23 USA-1851-0101-5001 5   blue               24 USA-1851-0102      3-cent Washington      Sc# -- --     --- USA-1851-0102-1001  1   rose               25 USA-1851-0102-2002 2   red                26 USA-1851-0102-2003 2   brownish carmine   26 USA-1851-0102-2004 2   claret             26 USA-1851-0102-2105 2a  dull red           26a USA-1851-0103      5-cent Jefferson       Sc# -- --     --- USA-1851-0103-1001  1   brick red          27 USA-1851-0103-1002 1   red brown          28 USA-1851-0103-1003 1   indian red         28a USA-1851-0103-1004 1   bright red brown   28b USA-1851-0103-1005 1   brown              29 USA-1851-0103-2001 2   orange brown       30 USA-1851-0103-2002 2   brown              30a