Object Details
- Description
- On September 10, 2009, in Los Angeles, California, the Postal Service issued a 44-cent Gary Cooper commemorative stamp. Designed by Phil Jordan of Falls Church, Virginia, the stamp is the 15th issuance in the Legends of Hollywood series.
- For decades, Gary Cooper (1901-1961), a popular leading man from Hollywood's "Golden Age," was the all-American hero whose believable performances and strong, silent appeal brought him a lifetime of fame.
- Phil Jordan designed the stamp using a portrait by artist Kazuhiko Sano of Mill Valley, California, based on a black and white photograph of Gary Cooper taken by George Hurrell, circa 1940. The selvage art, based on a still from the movie "High Noon," depicts Gary Cooper in his Academy Award-winning role as the courageous Marshall Will Kane.
- Avery Dennison produced 40 million stamps in a pressure-sensitive adhesive pane of twenty stamps using the gravure process.
- Reference: Postal Bulletin (July 30, 2009)
- mint
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- September 10, 2009
- Object number
- 2009.2029.650
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink / photogravure
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 4421
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Stars of Stage & Screen
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_2009.2029.650
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8bda4f6fa-c050-4d67-8f08-8e659264b549
