First Day of Issue of Carousel Animals U.S. Postage Stamps

According to the Sandusky Register of October 2, 1988, on October 1, 1988 throngs of people assembled at both the Sandusky U.S. Post Office and Cedar Point to mark the first day issue of four stamps which featured images of carousel animals.

The stamps were designed by Paul Calle. The cover photo of the first day issue memento featured a photograph from The Art of the Carousel by Charlotte Dinger. The carousel animals included a Gustav Dentzel deer, a goat and camel by Charles Looff, and an armored horse carved by Daniel C. Muller, which is still a working carousel animal on Kiddie Kingdom Carousel at Cedar Point. Helen Hansen, who donated this item to the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center, wrote on the back of the card that it was a warm and sunny day at Cedar Point, with a lovely setting and a good crowd at Cedar Point.

You can read the history of Sandusky’s Merry Go Round Museum at the museum’s website, which states that the idea of the Merry Go Round Museum in Sandusky came about because of the first day issue of the carousel stamps. The museum opened its doors on July 14, 1990.