Object Details
- Description
- The Postal Service honored five Olympic winter sports with the issuance of a strip of five 29-cent commemorative stamps on January 6, 1994, in Salt Lake City, Utah. The stamps capture the action of alpine skiing, luge, ice dancing, nordic skiing, and ice hockey.
- Descriptive texts appeared as below:
- Alpine Skiing -- Slalom places a premium on speed and skill. Skiers must race down unforgiving mountainsides through a maze of flagged gates.
- Luge -- Participants, known as "sliders," careen down a course of banked and hairpin turns at speeds up to 65 mph.
- Ice Dancing -- Form and grace, elaborate costumes, and charismatic melodies combine to make ice dancing an Olympic favorite.
- Nordic Skiing -- Perhaps the most grueling of the skiing competitions, cross-country racers endure taxing trials over rolling natural terrain.
- Ice Hockey -- The "goalie," protected by more than forty pounds of padding, must react in a flash to stop approaching shots.
- Designed by Lon Busch of St. Louis, Missouri, the stamps were printed in the offset process by Ashton-Potter (USA), Ltd., and issued in panes of twenty.
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin (December 23, 1993).
- mint
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- January 6, 1994
- Object number
- 1994.2087.10
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (multicolored); adhesive / lithography
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 2811
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Organizations & Associations
- Sports
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_1994.2087.10
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8d58ab3b4-b4e0-41c6-8a20-28283ab232b9
