41c Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings single
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- Description
- On February 21, 2008, in Hawthorne, Florida, the Postal Service issued a 41-cent Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings commemorative stamp in one design in a pressure-sensitive adhesive pane of twenty stamps. Carl T. Herrman of Carlsbad, California, designed the stamp.
- With this twenty-fourth stamp in the Literary Arts series, the Postal Service commemorated author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953), best known for her novel "The Yearling" and her memoir "Cross Creek." Rawlings is remembered for a series of short stories, novels, and works of nonfiction about life in the Florida backwoods.
- The stamp was dedicated on the grounds of Rawlings's home in Cross Creek, a State of Florida historic park. In the foreground of the stamp art is a portrait of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings based on an undated photograph. The background depicts a fawn at a watering hole in the Florida scrub country. The rows of spots on the fawn, which are consistent with descriptions in "The Yearling," indicate that the fawn is a young male.
- Thirty million stamps were printed in the gravure process by Avery Dennison (AVR), Clinton, South Carolina.
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin (January 17, 2008).
- mint
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- February 21, 2008
- Object number
- 2008.2021.26
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink / photogravure
- Place
- United States of America
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 4223
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Literature
- Women's Heritage
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_2008.2021.26
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8debf71bc-560c-4862-aa6c-aa502bb8ccbe
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