2002 37c John James Audubon

Issue Date: June 27, 2002
City: Santa Clara, CA
Quantity: 3,000,000
Printed by: American Packaging Corporation for Sennett Security Products
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforations: Serpentine Die Cut 10 2/4
Color:  Multicolored

 

John James Audubon (1785-1851) had a dream of drawing each American bird in “its natural size and colouring. In The Birds of America, Audubon captured 1,065 individual birds on 435 hand-colored plates. The John James Audubon stamp is the 2002 addition to the American Treasures Series that was introduced in 2001.