Object Details
- Printer
- Banknote Corporation of America
- Description
- The Postal Service issued 37-cent and 60-cent Love special stamps, on August 16, 2002, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Michael Osborne of San Francisco, California designed the stamps.
- The stamps feature a colorful, abstract design in multiple colors. The first Love stamp was issued by the Postal Service in 1973. Since that time, Love stamps have featured a wide range of subjects including flowers, animals, cherubs, and love letters, as well as abstract designs.
- The 37-cent Love stamp was produced as a $7.40 pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) convertible booklet of twenty (1.5 billion stamps printed by the Banknote Corporation of America, Inc., in the offset process), and the 60-cent (two-ounce rate) Love stamp was produced as a PSA pane of twenty (150 million stamps printed by Avery Dennison in the gravure process).
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin (July 11, 2002).
- mint
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- August 16, 2002
- Object number
- 2002.2029.65
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (multicolor); self-adhesive
- Dimensions
- Height x Width: 1 3/8 × 7/8 in. (3.49 × 2.22 cm)
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 3657
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Contemporary (1990-present)
- popular culture
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_2002.2029.65
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm833d527ed-49e8-4e00-abbb-d2bde31ca33b
