- Description
- Specifications
| ID Number: | AP01-0101 |
| Description: | Statue Of Liberty, New York Skyline & Lockheed Constellation |
| Country or State: | United States of America |
| Year: | 20 August 1947 |
| Face Value: | 15 ¢ - United States cent |
| Series: | Airmail 1941-1949 |
| Perforation: | line11 x 10½ |
| Printing: | Recess |
| Dimensions (B x H): | 40 x 26 mm |
| Emission: | 756,186,350 |
| Catalog Number: | Michel US 561w Stamp Number US C35 Yvert et Tellier US PA37 Stanley Gibbons US A949 |
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The Statue of Liberty, officially known as Liberty Enlightening the World (French: La Liberté éclairant le monde), is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor within New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886. |