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Show Savings Stamps Seen Answer to Xmas Gift Problem Your local post office has a real bargain for you a brand new United States Savings Stamp in patriotic red, white and blue, at the same old price of 25 cents. For an even better bargain, you can buy 10 stamps in an attractive at-tractive gift book for $2.50, or 20 stamps for $5.00 and the book doesn't even cost you that I extra penny. The new stamp, a successor to the old 25-cent green savings stamp, went on sale In Pst of-1 fices all over the country on Nov., 18. It marks the first major change in design since the pres-1 ent series was begun In 1952. The other denominations remain, unchanged: the 10-cent starry, in red, the 50-cent stamp in blue, the $1 grey and the $3 brown. The gift book is an entirely new item, providing a useful, attractive, at-tractive, and inexpensive gift for the youngster who "has everything." every-thing." Size 4" x 2", the book cover is in red, white and blue, picturing Uncle Sam wrapping a huge gift, with the wording: "A Gift of U. S. Savings Stamps" and the customory 'To" and 'From" lines. While especially i appropriate at the Christmas sea-1 son, the gift books are for all-, year-round use. I |