Settlement of Jamestown

This souvenir sheet commemorates the 400th anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown, Virginia, by English colonists in 1607. On the front of the sheet is a first-class stamp featuring a painting of the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery—the three ships that carried the first settlers to Jamestown. Artist Griffith Baily Coale completed the painting in 1949. The stamp is shaped like a triangle, as was the fort raised by the Jamestown settlers shortly after their arrival in 1607.

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The artist Griffith Baily Coale, that painted the ships, happens to be my grandfather. The link goes to a site I've been doing about him. The original mural is at the Virginia State Capital. It was the last mural he painted before he died in 1950. The sheet of stamps is pretty spectacular. The back has a painting of what the original Jamestown settlement is thought to have looked like. Cool stamps!