Object Details
Description
The Postal Service issued the 37-cent Constellations commemorative stamps in four designs on October 3, 2005, in Bloomfield, Michigan. McRay Magleby of Provo, Utah designed the stamps.
Starry patterns in the night sky adorn a block of four stamps. Each stamp features one of the following constellations as seen from the northern hemisphere: Leo, Lyra, Pegasus, and Orion.
Countless generations ago, people gazed upward and began to "connect the dots," drawing imaginary lines from one star to another. Magleby used star maps by Wil Tirion as reference for the placement and size of the stars depicted in the stamp art.
Ashton Potter (USA), Ltd., printed 70 million stamps in pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) panes of twenty in the offset process.
Reference:
Postal Bulletin (September 1, 2005)
unused
Credit line
Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
Date
September 28, 2005
Object number
2006.2002.2
Type
Postage Stamps
Medium
paper; ink (multicolored)/ lithographed
Place
Michigan
United States of America
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Data Source
National Postal Museum
Topic
Space Exploration & the Universe
Contemporary (1990-present)
U.S. Stamps
Link to Original Record
Record ID
npm_2006.2002.2