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1977 13c Peace Bridge
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U.S. #1721
1977 13¢ Peace Bridge
Issue Date: August 4, 1977
City: Buffalo, NY
Quantity: 163,625,000
Printed By: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Engraved
Perforations: 11 x 10½
Color: Blue
This stamp was first issued on August 4, 1977, in Buffalo, New York, marking the 50th anniversary of the Peace Bridge, which spans the Niagara River connecting Buffalo with Fort Erie, Ontario. The idea for the bridge took shape in the early 1920s, when the state of New York and the government of Canada each incorporated a company under the name Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Company, and in 1925 the two nations combined their efforts into a single international company to study the project's feasibility and oversee its construction.
Construction moved forward over the following two years, and the bridge officially opened to traffic in June 1927. The completed structure gave the bridge its name, meant to symbolize the long peaceful relationship between the United States and Canada, two countries that share the longest international border in the world without any permanent military fortifications along it. The bridge quickly became a vital link for both commercial and personal travel between the two nations, easing cross border movement across the Niagara River at a time when growing automobile traffic made a dependable crossing increasingly necessary.
Artist Bernard Brussel-Smith designed this stamp using a woodcut technique, choosing a blue color scheme for the finished design. The stamp's fiftieth anniversary timing offered a fitting tribute to a structure that had, by 1977, quietly supported five decades of steady cross border traffic and cooperation. More than a bridge connecting two cities, the Peace Bridge stood as a physical reminder of the durable friendship between the United States and Canada, a relationship this stamp captured in miniature through Brussel-Smith's engraved rendering of the span itself.
U.S. #1721
1977 13¢ Peace Bridge
Issue Date: August 4, 1977
City: Buffalo, NY
Quantity: 163,625,000
Printed By: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Engraved
Perforations: 11 x 10½
Color: Blue
This stamp was first issued on August 4, 1977, in Buffalo, New York, marking the 50th anniversary of the Peace Bridge, which spans the Niagara River connecting Buffalo with Fort Erie, Ontario. The idea for the bridge took shape in the early 1920s, when the state of New York and the government of Canada each incorporated a company under the name Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Company, and in 1925 the two nations combined their efforts into a single international company to study the project's feasibility and oversee its construction.
Construction moved forward over the following two years, and the bridge officially opened to traffic in June 1927. The completed structure gave the bridge its name, meant to symbolize the long peaceful relationship between the United States and Canada, two countries that share the longest international border in the world without any permanent military fortifications along it. The bridge quickly became a vital link for both commercial and personal travel between the two nations, easing cross border movement across the Niagara River at a time when growing automobile traffic made a dependable crossing increasingly necessary.
Artist Bernard Brussel-Smith designed this stamp using a woodcut technique, choosing a blue color scheme for the finished design. The stamp's fiftieth anniversary timing offered a fitting tribute to a structure that had, by 1977, quietly supported five decades of steady cross border traffic and cooperation. More than a bridge connecting two cities, the Peace Bridge stood as a physical reminder of the durable friendship between the United States and Canada, a relationship this stamp captured in miniature through Brussel-Smith's engraved rendering of the span itself.
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