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Scenes from American history, famous Americans, and traditional Christmas images are postage stamp themes frequently employing original artwork. The main references for the list are: National Postal Museum online database "Arago: Philately", [1] the Colnect Worldwide Stamp Catalog, [2] and the US Stamp Gallery. [3]
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Media in category "Stamp images published abroad that are in the public domain in the United States" The following 15 files are in this category, out of 15 total. Austria 252.jpg 1,307 × 1,515; 1.73 MB
Through the years, a person has had to be deceased before their face appeared on a stamp, [1] though the USPS will document that a stamp has commemorated people, living or deceased, without including their actual face on the stamp – such as the image of a yellow submarine from the 1969 eponymous album cover shown on the 1999 stamp [2 ...
The first such issue was an 8 cents stamp that the Postal Service initially titled "Special Stamp for Someone Special". [56] The stamp was based on a pop art image that Robert Indiana had designed during the 1960s (see "Love" sculpture). [55] [56] The 1973 issue had a printing production of 320 million stamps. [56]
Buyers were encouraged to clip out the stamps and collect them (this practice was annoying to future comic collectors, with the price of comics declining if they were cut up for their Value Stamps), [9] with Marvel offering a stamp book by mail for 50 cents; if a person managed to collect all 100 stamps in a book (the 100th Stamp was kept a ...
Contour stamp A toy rubber stamp featuring a pterosaur Fabrication of stamp by photopolymer method Ink pad "Barock Made in East Germany" (c.1960), in the collection of the Museum Europäischer Kulturen. Materials besides rubber can produce a stamp. Woodcut and linocut, the carving of linoleum, are art forms based on the same principles ...
The smallest postage stamp on record was issued by Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1856, and was a square, with sides measuring 10 millimeters. The biggest stamps in history were used in the United States from 1865 and measured 52 by 95 millimeters, but were used exclusively for mailing newspapers.