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Medium:
paper; ink (multicolored)/ lithographed
Type:
Postage Stamps
Place:
United States of America
Date:
May 21, 2007
Description:
The Postal Service issued a 17-cent definitive Bighorn Sheep stamp on May 21, 2007, in Washington, DC. Carl T. Herrman of Carlsbad, California, designed the stamps.
The stamp features a stylized drawing of a bighorn sheep (Ovis Canadensis). This kind of sheep is found from southwestern Canada to northern Mexico. Its range includes the colder, higher elevations of the Rocky Mountains and some of the hottest, most arid regions of the American Southwest and Mexico. To create the image on the stamp, artist Nancy Stahl of New York, New York, worked from photographs of bighorn sheep.
Reference:
Postal Bulletin (April 26, 2007).
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Topic:
Animals  Search this
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U.S. Stamps  Search this
Credit line:
Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
Object number:
2008.2007.237
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National Postal Museum Collection
Data Source:
National Postal Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8ae96deb6-0dfc-460c-83cf-d0c6b88bba6c
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:npm_2008.2007.237