32c Padre Varela single
Object Details
- Description
- The Postal Service honored Padre Felix Varela with the issuance of a 32-cent commemorative stamp on September 15, 1997, in Miami, Florida.
- The stamp features a portrait of a great humanitarian, Padre Felix Varela (1788-1853), who spent his life supporting human rights and giving aid to the sick and poor.
- Designed by Carl Herrman of Laguna Niguel, California, and illustrated by Keith Birdsong of Muskogee, Oklahoma, the stamps were printed in panes of twenty by Ashton-Potter (USA), Ltd., in the offset process,
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin (August 14, 1997).
- mint
- perf. 11.2
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- September 15, 1997
- Object number
- 1998.2008.349
- Depicts
- Feliz Varela, 1787 - 1853
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (purple); adhesive / lithography
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 3166
- Topic
- Contemporary (1990-present)
- Humanitarian Causes
- Hispanic Heritage
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_1998.2008.349
