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Stamps by countries | America | USA | 1976
American Bicentennial. State Flags (pane of 50 different stamps).
 
Stamp: Flag of Wyoming
Edition type: commemorative stamp
Denomination: 13 c
Date of issue: 1976 Feb. 23
Depiction: Flag of Wyoming; 44th stamp in the sheet
Colour: multicolored
Paper: chalk-surfaced
Designer: Walt Reed
Perforation: comb. 11
Printing process: photogravure
Size of a stamp (mm): 40×25,5
Size of a sheet (mm):
Sheet composition: 50 (5×10) stamps
Printing run: 8 720 100
Stamp issuing authority: United States Postal Service
Printer: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
  First day city was Washington, District of Columbia 20013.
 
 
  Flags are on stamps of the Sheet at 13 cents apiece:
1) Delaware; 2) Pennsylvania; 3) New Jersey; 4) Georgia; 5) Connecticut;
6) Massachusetts; 7) Maryland; 8) South Carolina; 9) New Hampshire; 10) Virginia;
11) New York; 12) North Carolina; 13) Rhode Island; 14) Vermont; 15) Kentucky;
16) Tennessee; 17) Ohio; 18) Louisiana; 19) Indiana; 20) Mississippi;
21) Illinois; 22) Alabama; 23) Maine; 24) Missouri; 25) Arkansas;
26) Michigan; 27) Florida; 28) Texas; 29) Iowa; 30) Wisconsin;
31) California; 32) Minnesota; 33) Oregon; 34) Kansas; 35) West Virginia;
36) Nevada; 37) Nebraska; 38) Colorado; 39) North Dakota; 40) South Dakota;
41) Montana; 42) Washington; 43) Idaho; 44) Wyoming; 45) Utah;
46) Oklahoma; 47) New Mexico; 48) Arizona; 49) Alaska; 50) Hawaii.

The State Flag of Wyoming was officially adopted on January, 31 1917. Flag consists of a rectangular dark blue field with with white and red borders. The width of the flag shall be seven-tenths (7/10) of its length; the outside border shall be in red, the width of which shall be one-twentieth (1/20) of the length of the flag; next to the border shall be a stripe of white on the four sides of the field, which shall be in width one-fortieth (1/40) of the length of the flag. In the center the flag contains a white silhouette of buffalo, the length of which shall be one-half (1/2) of the length of the blue field. On the ribs of the buffalo is the Great Seal of the state of Wyoming in blue. The bison represents the local fauna while the seal on it symbolizes the custom of branding livestock.

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