Object Details
Depicts
Lon Chaney Sr., American, 1883 - 1930
Description
The Postal Service issued five 32-cent Classic Movie Monsters commemorative stamps on September 30, 1997, in Universal City, California.
The stamps feature five legendary movie monsters and pay tribute to the actors who portrayed them. Featured on the sheet are Bela Lugosi as Dracula, Lon Chaney as The Phantom of the Opera, Lon Chaney, Jr., as The Wolf Man, and Boris Karloff as both The Mummy and Frankenstein's monster. The selvage also contains a photograph of each actor and his signature.
Designed by Derry Noyes of Washington, DC, and illustrated by Thomas Blackshear of Colorado Springs, Colorado, the stamps were issued in a pane of twenty and printed by Stamp Venturers, Inc., in the gravure process.
Reference:
Postal Bulletin (August 28, 1997).
mint
Credit line
Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
Date
September 30, 1997
Object number
1998.2008.696
Type
Postage Stamps
Medium
paper; ink (multicolored); adhesive / photogravure
Place
United States of America
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Data Source
National Postal Museum
Topic
Stars of Stage & Screen
U.S. Stamps
Link to Original Record
Record ID
npm_1998.2008.696