Object Details
Description
On April 30, 2010, in North Hollywood, California, the Postal Service issued a 44-cent Animal Rescue: Adopt a Shelter Pet stamp in ten designs.
The stamps, designed by Derry Noyes of Washington, DC, were issued to raise awareness of the need to adopt shelter pets. The pets depicted on the stamps were photographed by Sally Andersen-Bruce near her home in New Milford, Connecticut. All had been homeless at one time; all but one had been adopted when they were photographed.
The Banknote Corporation of America printed 300 million stamps using the offset process with microprint "USPS." The stamps were issued in a pressure-sensitive adhesive pane of twenty stamps.
Reference: Postal Bulletin (March 25, 2010).
Credit line
Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
Date
April 30, 2010
Object number
2010.2013.37
Type
Postage Stamps
Medium
paper; ink / lithographed
Place
United States of America
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Data Source
National Postal Museum
Topic
Animals
U.S. Stamps
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Record ID
npm_2010.2013.37