39c Sugar Ray Robinson single

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Object Details

Description

The Postal Service issued a 39-cent commemorative Sugar Ray Robinson stamp on April 6, 2006, in New York, New York. Carl T. Herrman of Carlsbad, California, designed the stamp.

With the issuance of this commemorative stamp, the Postal Service paid tribute to six-time world champion boxer Sugar Ray Robinson (1921-1989).

Resembling a fight poster from the 1940s and 1950s, the stamp design features block lettering and a halftone image of Robinson created from a photographic portrait made during his peak fighting years.

Avery Dennison produced 100 million stamps in the gravure process, in pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) panes of twenty stamps.

Reference:

Postal Bulletin (February 16, 2006).

mint

Credit line

Date

April 7, 2006

Object number

2008.2007.231

Type

Postage Stamps

Medium

paper; ink (multicolored)/ photogravure

Place

United States of America

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Data Source

National Postal Museum

Topic

Sports

Contemporary (1990-present)

Black Heritage

U.S. Stamps

Metadata Usage

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Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8a64889da-bc9d-4164-a3bc-2286143613a8

Record ID

npm_2008.2007.231