Object Details
- Description
- As part of the Folk Art Series, the Postal Service issued four new designs, featuring four carousel horses. The 32-cent stamps were issued July 21, 1995 in Lahaska, Pennsylvania. The stamps were designed by Paul Calle of Stamford, Connecticut.
- The figures chosen represent the three styles of American carousel carvings that developed from 1870 to 1930. Representing the flamboyant "Coney Island Style" is a magnificent "King Horse," decorated with tassels and a festoon of large cabbage roses. Representing the realistic "Philadelphia Style" is an exciting lifelike "Indian Pony," decorated with feathers, beads, and "tooled leather" straps. Representing the "Country Fair Style" is a "Lillie Belle" jumper, circa 1917, with a dramatic high-flying mane. The final horse selected is an intricately designed armored jumper, circa 1912, also carved in the "Coney Island Style." This medieval horse is draped with fish-scale armor, a fancy gorget, and layers of chain mail.
- The stamps went on sale nationwide July 22. Ashton-Potter (USA) Ltd. produced the stamps in the offset process.
- Reference: Postal Bulletin (June 22, 1995)
- mint
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- July 21, 1995
- Object number
- 1996.2066.192
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (multicolored)/ lithographed
- Place
- United States of America
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 2977
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Contemporary (1990-present)
- Animals
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_1996.2066.192
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm898af2c51-d7c4-4dd1-bed8-d18ed2ee5e5c
