$17.50 Priority Mail Express Old Faithful single

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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

Date

January 16, 2009

Object number

2009.2029.76

Type

Postage Stamps

Medium

paper; ink / lithographed

Place

United States of America

Wyoming

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Data Source

National Postal Museum

Topic

Animals

U.S. Stamps

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Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm892b32919-4490-4b5b-8e1d-671b75719b67

Record ID

npm_2009.2029.76