6c Tricycle single
Object Details
- Description
- The 6-cent Tricycle issue features an image of a three-wheeled vehicle popular during the 1880s. The tricycle was intended for adults wishing to avoid the hazards of the high rider bicycle of the 1870s that appears on the 5.9-cent value of the Transportation Coil Series. The 6-cent Tricycle was issued on May 6, 1985, at Childs, Maryland, without a formal ceremony. There were 151,594 first day covers. All were the block-tagged unprecanceled collectors' version issued in coils of five hundred stamps, all with plate 1.
- The stamp was issued to pay the basic third-class bulk per-piece rate that had gone into effect on February 19, 1985. The untagged version was overprinted with the words “Nonprofit Org.” between parallel bars using plates 1 and 2. It was issued in coils of five hundred and 3,000 stamps. When the six-cent non-profit rate ended on December 31, 1985, the precancelled stamp was authorized for false franking until March 1, 1987.
- The Bureau of Engraving and Printing printed the stamp on the intaglio B with plate numbers and intervals of fifty-two stamps. It was designed by James Schleyer of Burke, Virginia. The vignette was engraved by Kenneth Kipperman. Thomas J. Bakos engraved the lettering. Both the engravers worked for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
- mint
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- May 6, 1985
- Object number
- 1999.2004.409
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (red brown); adhesive / engraving
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 2126
- Topic
- The Cold War (1945-1990)
- Cars & Trucks
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_1999.2004.409
