June 10, 1989 Cooperstown, NY
The US Postal Service honors "The Iron Horse" Lou Gehrig who played 2,130 consecutive games for the New York Yankees. Veteran designer Bart Forbes based his portrait of Gehrig on two photographs of the All-Star first baseman. The handsome, dimpled profile of Gehrig in Yankee pinstripes is taken from a picture owned by Mike Aronstein. The foreground figure of the left-handed-hitting slugger is from a 1939 photograph by Herman Seid.
Art craft cachet (Sch21)
Postal Commemorative Society - Artcraft cachet (Sch272)
Artmaster (Sch22)
Aristocrat (Sch18)
Carrollton (Sch47)
Robinson Stamps linoprint cachet (Sch294)
signed by Hippolito Pena and Scott Bradley
Robert Patlen (Sch259 - 2 different cachets)
Sch# from A Checklist of the Lou Gehrig Issue, Elten Schiller, AFDCS July 1990
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