62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS. -CH. 645 -JUNE 25, 1948 Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. § 501. POSTAGE STAMPS AND POSTAL CARDS Whoever forges or counterfeits any postage stamp, or any stamp printed upon any stamped envelope, or postal card, or any die, plate, or engraving therefor; or Whoever makes or prints, or knowingly uses or sells, or possesses with intent to use or sell, any such forged or counterfeited postage stamp, stamped envelope, postal card, die, plate, or engraving; or Whoever makes, or knowingly uses or sells, or possesses with intent to use or sell, any paper bearing the watermark of any stamped envelope, or postal card, or any fraudulent imitation thereof; or Whoever makes or prints, or authorizes to be made or printed, any postage stamp, stamped envelope, or postal card, of the kind authorized and provided by the Post Office Department, without the special authority and direction of said department; or Whoever after such postage stamp, stamped envelope, or postal card has been printed, with intent to defraud, delivers the same to any person not authorized by an instrument in writing, duly executed under the hand of the Postmaster General and the seal of the Post Office Department, to receive it- Shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. § 502. POSTAGE AND REVENUE STAMPS OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS Whoever forges, or counterfeits, or knowingly utters or uses any forged or counterfeit postage stamp or revenue stamp of any foreign government, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. § 503. POSTMARKING STAMPS Whoever forges or counterfeits any postmarking stamp, or impres- sion thereof with intent to make it appear that such impression is a genuine postmark, or makes or knowingly uses or sells, or possesses with intent to use or sell, any forged or counterfeited postmarking stamp, die, plate, or engraving, or such impression thereof, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. § 504. PRINTING STAMPS FOR PHILATELIC PURPOSES (a) Nothing in sections 481, 492 and 502 of this title, or in any other provision of law, shall forbid or prevent the printing, publishing, or importation, or the making or importation of the necessary plates for such printing or publishing, for philatelic purposes in articles, books, journals, newspapers, or albums (including the circulars or advertising literature of legitimate dealers in stamps or publishers of or dealers in philatelic or historical articles, books, journals, or albums), of black and white illustrations of- (1) foreign revenue stamps if from plates so defaced as to indicate that the illustrations are not adapted or intended for use as stamps; (2) foreign postage stamps; or (3) such portion of the border of a stamp of the United States as may be necessary to show minor distinctive features of the stamp so illustrated, but all such illustrations shall be at least four times as large as the portion of the original United States stamp so illustrated. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Treasury, subject to the approval of the President, may, upon finding that no hindrance to the suppression of counterfeiting and no 713 Ante, pp. 707, 710; 8upra.
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