USPS# DATE OF ISSUE DESCRIPTION
83-39 10/28/1983 .20 MADONNA AND CHILD
83-40 10/28/1983 .20 SANTA CLAUS
83-41 11/4/1983 .35 OLYMPICS (4 DESIGNS)
83-42 11/11/1983 .20 MARTIN LUTHER
83-43 11/17/1983 .20 FLAG (BOOKLET OF 10)
Souvenir Pages have been issued by the US Postal Service since the Yellowstone Park issue of 1972 (a Page was issued for Family Planning, but not included in the subscription series.) Each 8 x 10-1/2 inch Page is printed on tinted bond paper, often with watermarks, and includes an image of the stamp, data about the issue including designer, first day date, first day city, number of stamps printed and background information on the stamp's subject. The stamp itself is affixed to the page and first day cancelled. Since 1988, Page numbers are printed in the lower right corner. Generally, Page numbers are four-digit numbers beginning with the two-digit year followed by a two-digit sequence-of-issue number, e.g 9601, 9602, etc. Pages issued prior to 1988 were not printed with a number, but have since been assigned numbers in The Postal Service Guide to US Stamps by the ASPPP (and accepted by the USPS) going back to 1972, the start of the subscription program. Pages have been issued (with only a few exceptions in 2000) for every US stamp issued since the start of the program in 1972.