| Stamps by countries | America | USA | 1931 | ||
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Stamp: Buffalo Edition type: definitive stamp Denomination: 30 c Date of issue: 1931 Sep. 8 Depiction: Bison (Bison bison) Colour: brown Paper: Artist: Charles Robert Knight Designer: Clair Aubrey Huston Engraver: Louis Schofield Perforation: lin. 10,5:11 Printing process: rotary press steel engraving Size of a stamp (mm): 26×22 Size of a sheet (mm): Sheet composition: 100 (10×10) stamps Printing run: 340 000 000 Stamp issuing authority: United States Postal Service Printer: Bureau of Engraving and Printing | |
| Issue City was Washington, District of Columbia. | ||
 The 30-cent Buffalo issue is the only stamp of the Regular Issue series 1922-1934 that does not have a ribbon-banner and title directly below the central image of the stamp. | ||
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Photo of wash drawing of bison by Charles Robert Knight (1874–1953), Made in Washington Zoo, 1901. | |
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| Themes: bison (Bison bison), fauna, definitive issues | ||
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