41c Aurora Borealis single
Object Details
- Description
- On October 1, 2007, in Washington, DC, the Postal Service issued the 41-cent Polar Lights commemorative stamps. Phil Jordan of Falls Church, Virginia, designed the stamps.
- This pane of twenty stamps features photographs of auroras. Fred Hirschmann of Wasilla, Alaska, made the photograph of the aurora borealis, or northern lights. Per-Andre Hoffmann, who resides in Manila, Philippines, made the photograph of the aurora australis, a phenomenon of the southern polar region.
- These two designs were previously issued as 84-cent stamps on a $1.68 International Polar Year souvenir sheet on February 21, 2007.
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin (August 30, 2007).
- mint
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- October 1, 2007
- Object number
- 2008.2005.1
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (multicolored)/ lithographed
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 4203
- Topic
- Contemporary (1990-present)
- The Environment
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_2008.2005.1
