$11.75 Piggyback Space Shuttle single
Object Details
- Description
- The Postal Service issued the Space Shuttle Piggyback $11.75 definitive express mail stamp on November 19, 1998, in New York, New York. A ceremony was held in conjunction with the first day of the Postage Stamp Mega Event.
- Designed by Phil Jordan of Falls Church, Virginia, the stamp was printed by the Banknote Corporation of America in the offset process.
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin (October 22, 1998).
- mint
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- November 19, 1998
- Object number
- 1999.2012.193
- Printer
- Banknote Corporation of America
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (multicolor) / photogravure; self-adhesive
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 3262
- Topic
- Planes & Pilots
- Contemporary (1990-present)
- Space Exploration & the Universe
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_1999.2012.193
