Christmas – Antique Toys

Complete set of 4 special postage stamps on the Antique Toys :

Issued by United States of America

Issued on Nov 5, 1970

Issued for : These 6-cent Christmas stamps will be first placed on sale November 5, 1970 at Washington, D.C., in non-precanceled and precanceled forms.

Design : Each pictures a toy of yesterday. These 19^th century bits of Americana are becoming prize collectors’ items and museum pieces. The four stamps, printed on the same sheet, were designed by Stevan Dohanos, of Westport, Connecticut, Chairman of the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee.

The locomotive was adopted from artwork by Charles Hemming in the “Index of American Design“, a collection of the National Gallery of Art. The others are from “The Golden Age of Toys“, by Fondin and Remise. Red, yellow, blue and black are combined to produce the stamps.

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Denomination : 6 cents each

Technical Details : They were printed by gravure at Guilford Gravure, Inc., Guilford, Connecticut, which was leased by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and was manned by Bureau personnel.

An additional 6-cent Christmas stamp reproduces “The Nativity“, by Lorenzo Lotto, 16^th Century Italian artist. It will also be issued November 5 in Washington, D.C.