1992 29c Contemporary Christmas: Locomotive

US #2712

1992 29¢ Locomotive

Christmas Toys

• Contemporary Christmas stamps for 1992
• Issued as sheets and booklets
•  Pictures antique locomotive with coal car toy

Stamp Category: Commemorative

Value: 29¢, Fi...  more

US #2712

1992 29¢ Locomotive

Christmas Toys

• Contemporary Christmas stamps for 1992
• Issued as sheets and booklets
•  Pictures antique locomotive with coal car toy

Stamp Category: Commemorative

Value: 29¢, First Class Mail rate

First Day of Issue: October 22, 1992

First Day City: Kansas City, Missouri

Quantity Issued: 125,000,000 stamps

Printed by: Ashton-Potter America, Inc.

Printing Method: Offset lithography

Format: Panes of 50

Perforations: 11

Why the stamp was issued: This stamp is part of a set of four stamps that was the Contemporary Christmas issues in 1992.

About the stamp design: The stamp art was the work of Lou Nolan. He painted his designs of four antique toys on illustration board. The locomotive was based on an illustration from a book.

Nolan’s work can be seen on several stamps in the Transportation series and other US stamps. 

Special design details: To prevent counterfeiting, Ashton-Potter printed the “29” and “USA” using a special green ink that contained metallic elements. If the stamps were photocopied, the colors would have separated. In addition, each stamp has a microscopic “© 1992” included on the bottom of the boiler, in front of the large wheel. A third security feature is a small patch of magenta dots between two spokes of the large wheel.

First Day City: The First Day of Issue ceremony for the Christmas Toys stamps took place at Hallmark Cards Corporate Headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri.

Unusual fact about this stamp: The locomotive stamp was adapted for stamps designed to be used in ATM machines.