Object Details
- Description
- On April 17, 2010, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the Postal Service issued a 44-cent Cowboys of the Silver Screen commemorative stamp in four designs.
- Designed by Carl T. Herrman of North Las Vegas, Nevada, the stamps honor four extraordinary performers who helped make the American Western movie a popular form of entertainment. Film stars from the silent era through the singing era are featured on the stamps: William S. Hart, Tom Mix, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers.
- Ashton Potter produced 40 million stamps using the offset process. The stamps were issued in a pressure-sensitive adhesive pane of twenty and a booklet of twenty stamped postal cards.
- Reference: Postal Bulletin (March 11, 2010).
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- April 17, 2010
- Object number
- 2010.2013.3
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink / lithographed
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 4448
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Stars of Stage & Screen
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_2010.2013.3
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm87ace3e95-b1af-4ac2-bce7-3e6c8568b881
