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44c Purple Heart single
Object Details
- Description
- On April 28, 2009, in Washington, DC, the US Postal Service reissued the Purple Heart definitive stamp in a denomination of forty-four cents. Carl T. Herrman of Carlsbad, California, designed the stamp.
- The stamp had been previously issued in the following formats and years:
- 2008, 42-cent pressure-sensitive adhesive pane of twenty and 42-cent water-activated gum sheet of one hundred
- 2007, 41-cent PSA pane of twenty
- 2006, 39-cent PSA pane of twenty
- 2003, 37-cent PSA pane of twenty
- A total of 500 million stamps were printed in the offset process with microprint "USPS" by Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd. (APU), Williamsville, New York.
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin, March 26, 2009.
- unused
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- April 28, 2009
- Object number
- 2009.2029.200
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink / lithographed
- Place
- United States of America
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 4390
- Topic
- Military & Policing Forces
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_2009.2029.200
- Usage
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