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Signed by Austin Briggs, who designed the Balloon Jupiter stamp. Briggs was born in a railroad car in 1908, and was later awarded a scholarship to the Wicker Art School in Detroit. Besides creating illustrations for the nation%u2019s top magazines, he also drew the popular comic strip Flash Gordon.Signed by Charles A. Halleck, who represented Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1935 to 1969; Albert L. Pyke, who was Postmaster of Lafayette from 1954 to 1964; and Walter Scholl, who was the stamp collector and balloonist who first suggested the idea of a postage stamp to commemorate the 1859 Jupiter flight.
