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42c Sunflower single
Object Details
- Description
- On August 15, 2008, in Hartford, Connecticut, the Postal Service issued a 42-cent Sunflower definitive stamp in a pressure-sensitive adhesive double-sided booklet of twenty. Derry Noyes of Washington, DC, designed the stamp.
- This stamp features a close-up of a sunflower (Helianthus annuus) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The photograph is by Eddie Hironaka, and the sunflower is one of the many modern ornamental varieties. The radiant beauty of sunflowers has long inspired photographers, painters, and poets, as well as gardeners, floral arrangers, and countless other admirers.
- A total of 750 million stamps were printed in the offset process with microprinting "USPS" process by Sennett Security Products/Banknote Corporation of America, Inc. (SSP/BCA).
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin (July 3, 2008).
- mint
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- August 15, 2008
- Object number
- 2009.2001.142
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink / lithographed
- Place
- United States of America
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 4347
- Topic
- Plants
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_2009.2001.142
- Usage
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