Stamps by countries | America | Dominica | 2000 |
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Berlin Film Festival - 50th Anniversary. (6 stamps and Souvenir Sheet in set). |
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Stamp: Souvenir Sheet - Buffalo Bill and the Indians. Paul Newman was depicted as Buffalo Bill
Edition type: commemorative stamp
Denomination: 6 $
Date of issue: 2000 Jun. 21
Depiction: Bison head as part of the subject image
Colour: multicolored
Paper: chalk-surfaced
Designer:
Perforation: frame 14,25
Printing process: offset
Size of a stamp (mm): 28×42
Size of a sheet (mm): 97×103
Printing run:
Stamp issuing authority: Instituto Postal Dominicano (INPOSDOM)
Printer: Editorama SA |
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William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody was a United States soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory (now state of Iowa, USA) near LeClaire on February 26, 1846, and died January 10, 1917 in Denver, Colorado. Cody got his nickname "Buffalo Bill" when he had a contract to supply Kansas Pacific Railroad workers with buffalo meat and by killing 4280 American bison (commonly known as buffalo) in eighteen months 1867-1868.
Buffalo Bill became world famous for his Wild West Shows he organized with cowboy themes, which toured in Great Britain and Europe.
Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director and entrepreneur. Newman was born in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio on January 26, 1925 and died on September 26, 2008 in Westport, Connecticut. |
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Themes: Bison (Bison bison), Persons, Cinema |
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