Object Details
- Description
- The Postal Service honored stars of the silent screen with the issuance of ten 29-cent commemorative stamps on April 27, 1994, in San Francisco, California. This issuance was held in conjunction with the opening of the thirty-seventh San Francisco International Film Festival.
- The Silent Screen Stars stamps feature ten of America's legendary movie performers -- Theda Bara, Clara Bow, Lon Chaney, Charlie Chaplin, John Gilbert, Buster Keaton, the Keystone Cops, Harold Lloyd, Zasu Pitts, and Rudolph Valentino.
- Designed by Al Hirschfeld of New York, the stamps were printed in the combination offset/intaglio process by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and issued in panes of forty.
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin (April 14, 1994).
- mint
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- April 27, 1994
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- Medium
- paper; ink (multicolored)/ lithographed; engraved
- Type
- Postage Stamps
