32c Charles Ives single

Object Details

Depicts

Charles Edward Ives, American, 1874 - 1954

Description

The Postal Service issued eight 32-cent Classical Composers and Conductors commemorative stamps on September 12, 1997, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The stamps honor eight great American composers and conductors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Conductors Leopold Stokowski, Arthur Fiedler, George Szell, and Eugene Ormandy are featured on the stamps in concert attire and are captured while in action during concert performances. Expressive portraits represent composers Samuel Barber, Ferde Grofe, Charles Ives, and Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

Designed by Howard Paine of Delaplane, Virginia, and illustrated by Burt Silverman of New York, New York, the stamps were printed in panes of twenty by Ashton-Potter (USA), Ltd., in the offset process,

Reference:

Postal Bulletin (August 14, 1997).

mint

Credit line

Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.

September 12, 1997

Object number

1998.2008.683

Type

Postage Stamps

Medium

paper; ink (multicolored); adhesive / lithography

Place

United States of America

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National Postal Museum Collection

Title

Scott Catalogue USA 3164

National Postal Museum

Topic

Music & Musicians

U.S. Stamps

Record ID

npm_1998.2008.683

Metadata Usage (text)

Not determined

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm840f0ba8b-89b5-462f-8189-2b4697fca0d9