About This Stamp
The Postal Service issued five 29-cent Olympic Summer Games commemorative stamps in sheet format on June 11, 1992, in Baltimore, Maryland, in conjunction with the opening ceremonies of the U.S. gymnastics championships at the Baltimore Arena. The stamps highlight five Olympic summer events — soccer, women's gymnastics, volleyball, boxing, and swimming.
The semi-jumbo commemoratives were available in panes of 35, with descriptive copy on a tab adjacent to each sport's strip of stamps. This format was also used for the 1990 American Olympians commemorative stamps and the 1992 Olympic Winter Games commemorative stamps.
The stamps were designed by Richard Waldrep of Baltimore, Maryland, the artist's first for the Postal Service. Stamp Venturers, Inc., printed the stamps on the photogravure press.