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Miniature sheet. 1998 Bi-Color Re-Issue of the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Stamps Designs (9 stamps).
 
Stamp: Indian Hunting Buffalo
Edition type: commemorative stamp
Denomination: 4 c
Date of issue: 1998 Jun. 18
Depiction: Buffalo Chase, Bi-Color Re-Issue of the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Stamp; 3rd stamp in the sheet
Colour: orange, black
Paper:
Artist: Seth Eastman
Perforation: frame 12:12,4
Printing process: steel engraving and lithograph
Size of a stamp (mm): 28×40
Size of a sheet (mm): 187×160
Sheet composition: 9 (3×3) stamps
Printing run: 2 200 000
Stamp issuing authority: United States Postal Service (USPS)
Printer: Banknote Corporation of America
  First day city was Anachaim, California 92803.
 

On stamps of the miniature sheet:

1 c - Marquette on the Mississippi;
2 c - Mississippi River Bridge;
4 c - Indian Hunting Buffalo;
5 c - Fremont on Rocky Mountains;
8 c - Troops Guarding Train;
10 c - Hardship of Emigration;
50 c - Western Mining Prospector;
1 $ - Western Cattle in Storm;
2 $ - Harvesting in the West.

The design of the 4 cents Trans-Mississippi stamp was obtained from an engraving by Captain Seth Eastman. Singling Out of engraving was used.

Illustration of Seth Eastmen, titled "Buffalo Chase", for the book Historical and Statistical Information Regarding the History, Conditions, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1854.

Themes: bison (Bison bison), indians, hunting
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