Object Details
- Description
- On January 16, 2009, in San Diego, California, the US Postal Service issued a $17.50 Old Faithful (Express Mail) definitive stamp in a pressure-sensitive pane of twenty stamps. Carl T. Herrman of Carlsbad, California, designed the stamp.
- This stamp features a digital illustration of Old Faithful geyser created by Dan Cosgrove, Clarendon Hills, Illinois. Cosgrove's artistic interpretation of the popular attraction at Yellowstone National Park shows Old Faithful erupting in the warm glow of an autumn sunset while several bison graze nearby.
- Ashton Potter (USA), Ltd. (APU), Williamsville, New York, printed 15 million stamps in the offset process with microprint "USPS."
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin, December 18, 2008.
- unused
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- January 16, 2009
- Object number
- 2009.2029.76
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink / lithographed
- Place
- United States of America
- Wyoming
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 4379
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Animals
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_2009.2029.76
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm892b32919-4490-4b5b-8e1d-671b75719b67
