Object Details
Printer
Ashton-Potter USA (Ltd)
Description
The Postal Service issued a 32-cent Lila and DeWitt Wallace definitive stamp on July 16, 1998, in Pleasantville, New York. The stamp is one of the Great Americans Series issues.
Lila and DeWitt Wallace, founders of Reader's Digest magazine, were two of America's foremost philanthropists. During their lifetimes, the Wallaces gave many millions to great charitable causes in the field of education, the arts, and music. In 1972, President Richard Nixon awarded them the Medal of Freedom.
The engraved stamp design is based on a pencil sketch portrait of Lila and DeWitt Wallace by veteran stamp designer Paul Calle. Designed by Howard Paine of Delaplane, Virginia, the stamp was engraved through the intaglio process by Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd. and printed in water-activated panes of twenty.
Reference:
Postal Bulletin (June 18, 1998).
GREAT AMERICANS ISSUE
Lila and DeWitt Wallace
Pane of 20 32-cent postage stamps
Issued July 16, 1998
Credit line
Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
Date
1998
Object number
2000.2021.131.1-20
Type
Postage Stamps
Medium
paper; ink (blue); adhesive
Dimensions
12.5 x 12.5 cm (4 15/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
Place
United States of America
See more items in
National Postal Museum Collection
Data Source
National Postal Museum
Topic
Contemporary (1990-present)
U.S. Stamps
Link to Original Record
Record ID
npm_2000.2021.131.1-20