Object Details
- Description
- On June 21, 2007, in Westport, Washington, the Postal Service issued the 41-cent Pacific Lighthouses commemorative stamps in five designs. Howard E. Paine of Delaplane, Virginia, designed the stamps.
- The 2007 issuance of the Pacific Lighthouses stamps features artwork by Howard Koslow of Toms River, New Jersey, of the following five Pacific lighthouses: Diamond Head, Hawaii; Five Finger, Alaska; Grays Harbor, Washington; Umpqua River, Oregon; and St. George Reef, California. Each stamp features an original acrylic painting by Koslow based on recent photographs of the lighthouses.
- Avery Dennison produced 175 million gravure stamps.
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin (May 24, 2007).
- mint
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- June 21, 2007
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- Medium
- paper; ink (multicolored)/ photogravure
- Type
- Postage Stamps
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