Object Details
- Description
- The Postal Service issued the 37-cent America on the Move: 50s Sporty Cars commemorative stamps in five designs on August 20, 2005, in Detroit, Michigan. Art M. Fitzpatrick of Carlsbad, California designed the stamps.
- These five stamps feature the sporty look of American cars designed in the 1950s, a decade marked by post-World War II euphoria and economic prosperity. The cars selected are the 1952 Nash Healey, 1953 Chevrolet Corvette, 1953 Studebaker Starliner, 1954 Kaiser Darrin, 1955 Ford Thunderbird.
- Referring to photographs of each car and his own cache of landscape images for the stamp backgrounds, artist Art M. Fitzpatrick rendered each stamp in meticulous detail. Fitzpatrick was once a car designer and a long-time advertising designer and illustrator for General Motors.
- The America on the Move: 50s Sporty Cars stamps were issued in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) double- sided convertible booklet of twenty (32 million booklets) and a booklet of twenty stamped cards (48,700 books). Ashton-Potter (USA), Ltd., printed the stamps in the offset process.
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin (July 21, 2005).
- unused
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- August 20, 2005
- Object number
- 2006.2002.378
- 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 3931
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Contemporary (1990-present)
- Cars & Trucks
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_2006.2002.378
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8725ac242-9252-4918-ae29-7574f5a7ae18
