Object Details
- Description
- The Postal Service issued the 37-cent Constellations commemorative stamps in four designs on October 3, 2005, in Bloomfield, Michigan. McRay Magleby of Provo, Utah designed the stamps.
- Starry patterns in the night sky adorn a block of four stamps. Each stamp features one of the following constellations as seen from the northern hemisphere: Leo, Lyra, Pegasus, and Orion.
- Countless generations ago, people gazed upward and began to "connect the dots," drawing imaginary lines from one star to another. Magleby used star maps by Wil Tirion as reference for the placement and size of the stars depicted in the stamp art.
- Ashton Potter (USA), Ltd., printed 70 million stamps in pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) panes of twenty in the offset process.
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin (September 1, 2005)
- unused
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- September 28, 2005
- Object number
- 2006.2002.2
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (multicolored)/ lithographed
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 3946
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Space Exploration & the Universe
- Contemporary (1990-present)
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_2006.2002.2
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8bef2a555-6e99-456f-92a4-90caed816690
