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Classic Mail Transportation: Stagecoach
Acrylic on canvas

Artist: Mark Hess
Art director: Richard Sheaff
First day of issue: November 19, 1989


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The history of mail delivery has been a common theme on American postage. For this stamp, one of four that marked the 20th Universal Postal Congress, artist Mark Hess depicted a stagecoach rumbling through a rural Western landscape—a design that stamp collectors in the United States and worldwide would likely see as typically American.
 
   

 

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