Statue of Liberty Forever stamp

Statue of Liberty Forever stamp

Country of production	USA
Date of production	December 1, 2010 (2010-12-01)
Commemorates	Statue of Liberty (New York City)
Depicts	Statue of Liberty (Las Vegas)
Notability	Uses image of replica, not original, statue
No. in existence	10.5 billion
Estimated value	Negligible

The United States Post Office issued the Statue of Liberty Forever stamp on December 1, 2010.^[1] The stamp shows the replica of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) located at the New York-New York Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip rather than the original Statue of Liberty in New York.^[2] The error was not noticed until March 2011.^[3]^[4] The error was identified by Sunipix, a stock photo agency in Texas.^[5] Ten and a half billion of the error stamps were produced.^[1] The mistake is the largest run of an error on a postage stamp.

In 2013, sculptor Robert S. Davidson sued the Postal Service for copyright infringement^[6] and in July 2018, a judge ordered the United States Postal Service to pay Davidson $3.5 million.^[7]

References

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^ ^a ^b "Linn's: Vegas Liberty undetected for more than two years". postalnews.com. 13 June 2011. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
^ "Stamp design glitches? They're a part of collecting history". Linns Stamp News. 2015-04-08. Retrieved 2015-12-18.
^ Bigalke, Jay (April 2011). "Statue of Liberty on U.S. stamp is a replica standing outside Las Vegas hotel and casino". Scott Stamp Monthly. Linns.com. Archived from the original on 16 April 2011. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
^ Severson, Kim; Healey, Matthew (14 April 2011). "This Lady Liberty Is a Las Vegas Teenager". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
^ McAllister, Bill (26 March 2018). "U.S. Postal Service lawyers urge judge to reject Lady Liberty stamp claim". Linn's Stamp News. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
^ Rein, Lisa (3 December 2013). "Sculptor sues Postal Service over mistaken Lady Liberty stamp". Washington Post. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
^ "Wrong Lady Liberty on Stamp to Cost US Postal Service $3.5M". U.S. News & World Report. 4 July 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2018.

Philately of the United States

Pre-stamp

Provisional stamps	Alexandria "Blue Boy" Postmaster's Provisional United States postmasters provisional stamps New York Postmaster's Provisional St. Louis Bears
19th century	1869 Pictorial Issue Black Jack Columbian Issue Hawaiian Missionaries Lost Continental Trans-Mississippi Issue Western Cattle in Storm Z Grill
20th century	All Aboard! 20th Century American Trains Americana series Antarctic Treaty issue Bicentennial Series Breast cancer research stamp Celebrate the Century Comic Strip Classics Elvis Presley single Federal Duck Stamp Five cents John Kennedy Fourth Bureau issue Great Americans series Hanukkah stamps Liberty Issue Norse-American Centennial Oklahoma Statehood Stamps Overrun Countries series Presidential Issue Prominent Americans series Series of 1902 Special handling stamps Transportation coils U.S. Parcel Post stamps of 1912–13 US Regular Issues of 1922–1931 War savings stamps Washington Bicentennial stamps of 1932 Washington–Franklin Issues
21st century	Distinguished Americans series Elvis Presley Forever stamp Nature of America Raising the Flag at Ground Zero Statue of Liberty Forever stamp 2017 Total Solar Eclipse stamp
Airmails	1918 Curtiss Jenny airmail stamps 1930 Graf Zeppelin stamps Inverted Jenny List of United States airmail stamps
EPOs	CIA invert Dag Hammarskjöld invert Inverted Jenny Nixon invert Pan-American invert
Topicals	Artworks on stamps of the United States Commemoration of the American Civil War on postage stamps History of Virginia on stamps List of people on the postage stamps of the United States Postage stamps and postal history of the Confederate States Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps Puerto Rico on stamps Territories of the United States on stamps U.S. space exploration history on U.S. stamps Women on US stamps

Postmarks	Earliest reported postmark Fancy cancel
Collections and museums	Benjamin Miller Collection Cardinal Spellman Philatelic Museum Florida Postal Museum National Philatelic Museum National Postal Museum
Miscellaneous	Air Mail Act of 1925 Air Mail scandal Apollo 15 postage stamp incident Barefoot mailman Boat Railway Post Office Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee Express mail in the United States History of United States postage rates Mail jumping Pneumatic tube mail in New York City Postal history of Oregon Railway Mail Service Rural Free Delivery Star routes U.S. Special Delivery
Postal services	American Letter Mail Company Butterfield Overland Mail Pony Express San Antonio–San Diego Mail Line United States Post Office Department United States Postal Service
Publications	The American Philatelist Higgins & Gage World Postal Stationery Catalog Linn's Stamp News Minkus catalogue Scott catalogue

Stamp
production

Designers	American stamp designers
Companies	American Bank Note Company Bureau of Engraving and Printing Homer Lee Bank Note Company

Organizations

v t e Statue of Liberty
Liberty Enlightening the World
Creators	Édouard René de Laboulaye, originator Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, sculptor Gustave Eiffel, builder company Eugène Secrétan, donated copper Richard Morris Hunt, pedestal Joseph Pulitzer, pedestal funding
Engineers	Eugène Viollet-le-Duc Maurice Koechlin Joachim Giæver
Location	Liberty Island Statue of Liberty National Monument Original torch: Statue of Liberty Museum Original statue: Musée des Arts et Métiers
Former locations	Right arm and torch: Centennial Exposition (1876) Madison Square Park (1876–1882) Head: Paris World's Fair (1878)
Replicas	United States: Las Vegas Strengthen the Arm of Liberty Austin, Texas Fayetteville, Arkansas Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Overland Park, Kansas Pine Bluff, Arkansas Seattle France: Île aux Cygnes, Paris Flame of Liberty United Kingdom: Leicester
Legacy	In popular culture "The New Colossus" (1883 sonnet) Working on the Statue of Liberty (1946 painting) Miss Liberty (1949 musical) The Statue of Liberty (1985 documentary) Statue of Liberty play (American football) Liberty Weekend, 1986 Liberty Fanfare Medal of Liberty Liberty Issue (1954–1965 stamps) Statue of Liberty Forever stamp Statue of Liberty commemorative coins American Platinum Eagle coin Presidential dollar coins American Innovation dollars United States ten-dollar bill Statue of Liberty Division
Related	1984–1986 conservation and restoration Statue of Liberty Museum Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia Libertas personification of Liberty Ellis Island Black Tom explosion Musée Bartholdi National symbols of the United States

Statue of Liberty Forever stamp

References

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