Object Details
- Description
- The Postal Service issued a 37-cent District of Columbia commemorative stamp in a pressure-sensitive adhesive pane of 16 stamps on September 23, 2003, in Washington, DC. The stamp was designed by Greg Berger, Bethesda, Maryland.
- This stamp honors the District of Columbia and Washington, the dynamic city within its boundaries. The stamp is shaped like a diamond, as was the original hundred square-mile tract of land chosen to be the permanent site of the nation's capital.
- o The top quadrant of the stamp features a detail from a plan of Washington developed by Pierre Charles L'Enfant in 1791.
- o The right quadrant of the stamp shows typical row houses in a Washington neighborhood.
- o The bottom quadrant of the stamp displays cherry blossoms.
- o The left quadrant of the stamp is a view along the National Mall featuring three of the most widely recognized structures in the country: the US Capitol, the Washington Monument, and the Lincoln Memorial.
- The stamp was printed in gravure process. Sennett Security Products, located at the American Packaging Corporation in Columbus, Wisconsin, printed 72 million stamps.
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin (September 4, 2003).
- Mint
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- September 23, 2003
- Object number
- 2003.2020.153
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink / gravure; adhesive
- Dimensions
- Height x Width: 1 5/16 × 1 5/16 in. (3.33 × 3.33 cm)
- Place
- District of Columbia
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 3813
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Contemporary (1990-present)
- Maps
- Plants
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_2003.2020.153
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm887e340e4-c1e6-48b6-9437-1741fd455405
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