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1 Fighter Stamp Uncut Rationing Stamps; Office of Price Administration USA
| Issuer | Office of Price Administration (OPA), United States |
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| Year | 1942-1945 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Uncut sheet of twenty individual ration stamps printed on pale grey-blue paper, each stamp bearing a black vignette of a WWII fighter aircraft in left-facing flight attitude at lower left, with bold letterpress text 'RATION STAMP NO.' and an individual sequential number at right. Perforated dashed lines delineate each stamp for separation. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse of the uncut sheet, in uniform grey-green paper stock, with dashed perforation lines visible across the surface marking individual stamp boundaries. |
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The Office of Price Administration was established in 1941 to prevent wartime inflation and manage civilian shortages. Fighter stamps — the small unit stamps used for gasoline rationing — were issued in uncut sheet form primarily for administrative distribution, not direct public use. Sheets like this reached filling station operators and local ration boards, who separated and validated individual stamps before they reached consumers. A surviving uncut example reflects the supply-chain end of the program rather than the retail end.
The OPA was dissolved in 1947, and the bulk of remaining stock was ordered destroyed.