Object Details
Printer
Ashton-Potter USA (Ltd)
Depicts
Babe Ruth, American, 1895 - 1948
Description
The Postal Service issued the Celebrate The Century:1920s souvenir sheet on May 28, 1998, in Chicago, Illinois.
The souvenir sheet features subjects from the following categories during the 1920s: People and Events, Arts and Entertainment, Lifestyle, Sports, and Science and Technology. The fifteen commemorative stamps in this sheet are titled Babe Ruth, The Gatsby Style, Prohibition Enforced, Electric Toy Trains, 19th Amendment, Emily Post's Etiquette, Margaret Mead, anthropologist, Flappers Do The Charleston, Radio Entertains America, Art Deco Style, Jazz Flourishes, Four Horsemen of Notre Dame, Lindbergh Flies Atlantic, American Realism, and Stock Market Crash 1929.
Designed by Carl Herrman of Laguna Niguel, California, and illustrated by Davis Meltzer of Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, the stamps were issued and printed by Ashton-Potter USA in the offset/intaglio process.
Reference:
Postal Bulletin (April 23, 1998).
32-cent mint single
Issued May 28, 1998
Credit line
Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
Date
May 28, 1998
Object number
2000.2020.3
Type
Postage Stamps
Medium
paper; ink (multicolor); adhesive
Dimensions
Height x Width: 1 3/16 × 1 3/16 in. (3.02 × 3.02 cm)
Place
New York
United States of America
See more items in
National Postal Museum Collection
Data Source
National Postal Museum
Topic
Contemporary (1990-present)
Sports
U.S. Stamps
Link to Original Record
Record ID
npm_2000.2020.3