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44¢ Angel with Lute
Pane of 20 - $8.80
Or may be purchased individually at $0.44 each. Self-adhesive
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44¢ Festive Holiday Baubles (Forever*) stamps
Book of 20 - $8.80
Self-adhesive
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44¢ Hanukkah Stamps (Forever)*
Pane of 20 - $8.80
Or may be purchased individually at $0.44 each. Self-adhesive
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Tulsa, Oklahoma 74128-4404
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44¢ EID Greetings - First Class (Forever*) Pane of 20 - $8.80
Or may be purchased individually at $0.44 each. Self-adhesive
44¢ Kwanzaa (Forever*) First Class
Pane of 20 - $8.80
Or may be purchased individually at $0.44 each. Self-adhesive
44¢ EID Greetings
Pane of 20 - $8.80
Or may be purchased individually at $0.44 each. Self-adhesive
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*FOREVER
Forever stamps mean that the stamp will always be good to use for first class letter mail no matter what the first class rate is adjusted to. Presently the 1st class rate is 44 cents. Even if it goes up in the future these stamps will be adjusted to the first class rate. This is what makes forever stamps a great value.
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*CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY STAMPS
This festive new Hanukkah (Forever®) stamp design commemorates a joyous annual festival celebrated by Jewish people around the world. In the stamp art, letters spelling out the word "Hanukkah" are backed by eight colorful shapes, symbolizing the eight days and nights of the celebration. The second "k" appears on the silhouette of a dreidel, a spinning top that children traditionally play with during Hanukkah.
The celebration of Hanukkah dates back over two millennia. Tradition relates how a miracle took place during the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem, which had been desecrated. The remaining supply of sacramental oil, thought to be enough for only one day, burned for eight days. Today, family members gather each night during the festival to light candles on a special candleholder called a menorah. Art director Ethel Kessler worked with illustrator Suzanne Kleinwaks on the new design.
The new Hanukkah stamps are being issued in panes of 20 self-adhesive Forever stamps. Forever stamps are always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail one-ounce rate.
Made in the USA.
This is the 44–cent Angel with Lute definitive stamp. It is available as a Pane of 20 stamps, or as individual stamps.
On October 21, 2010, in New York, New York, at the Mega Stamp Show, the Postal Service™ issued a 44–cent, Angel with Lute definitive stamp, designed by Terrence McCaffrey of USPS.
This stamp features a detail of a fragment of a circa–1480 fresco by Melozzo da Forli (1438–1494). Clad in red and green, an angel with a halo strums a lute and glances downward toward the left. The original fresco fragment, now in Room IV of the Vatican Pinacoteca (art museum), measures approximately 37 inches by 46 inches.
Made in the USA.
Holiday Baubles (Forever)
Issue Type: Special
Issue City: New York, NY 10199 (Mega Stamp Show)
Issue Date: October 13, 2011
Issue Series: Holiday Celebrations
These festive Holiday Baubles (Forever®) stamps feature four colorful ornaments sure to add to the joys of the holiday season. These baubles may also inspire fond memories of beloved tree ornaments from childhood-objects that still have the power to enchant us today.
While styles from the 1950s inspired the ornaments depicted in the stamp art, sincere wishes for happy holidays never go out of fashion. These stamps offer a fashionably "retro" way to enhance the season's greetings.
Evergreen trees and branches have been used as winter holiday decorations for hundreds of years. Trees were trimmed with fruit — apples were a popular choice — and nuts, candies, or paper. Glass ornaments first appeared in the late 19th century, in Germany, and their use quickly spread to other countries.
William J. Gicker art directed these stamps using illustrations by Linda Fountain. Drawing on styles popular during the 1950s, she first sketched the ornaments then rendered them using cut paper. These renderings were scanned and turned into digital files. The actual objects are slightly larger than a sheet of typing paper.
These stamps are being issued in books of 20 self-adhesive Forever stamps, with five of each different design. Forever stamps are always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail one-ounce rate.
Made in the USA.
Eid (Forever)
Issue City: Columbus, OH 43216 (APS Stamp Show) (No Ceremony)
Issue Date: August 12, 2011
Issue Series: N/A
With the Eid (Forever®) stamp, the U.S. Postal Service™ honors two of the most important festivals in the Islamic calendar: Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. On these days, Muslims wish each other Eid mubarak, the phrase shown in gold calligraphy on the stamp. Eid mubarak translates literally as "blessed festival" and can be paraphrased "May your religious holiday be blessed."
In 2011, Eid al-Fitr will be celebrated August 30 and Eid al-Adha will be celebrated November 6. These dates, which are based on predicted sightings of the moon, are preliminary and may vary slightly as each festival approaches.
An accomplished artist, calligrapher, and maker of custom instruments from the history of science, Mohamed Zakariya worked closely with art director Phil Jordan to create this new design for the Holiday Celebrations series.
This new Eid stamp is being issued as a Forever stamp. Forever stamps are always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail one-ounce rate. The new background color and calligraphy on this stamp will help customers and postal clerks distinguish the Forever stamp from the original Eid stamp, which was first issued in 2001 with gold calligraphy on a blue background.
Made in the USA.
KWANZAA (Forever)
Issue City: New York, NY 10199
Issue Date: October 14, 2011
Issue Series: Holiday Celebrations
With this colorful new Kwanzaa (Forever®) stamp design, the U.S. Postal Service celebrates this holiday that takes place over seven days beginning each year on December 26 and ending January 1. Kwanzaa is intended as a celebration of seven principles — unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith — that are based on values prevalent in African culture.
Kwanzaa draws on African traditions and takes its name from the phrase for "first fruits" in Swahili, a widely spoken African language. Its origins are in harvest celebrations that occurred in various places across the African continent in ancient and modern times. These traditions were synthesized and reinvented in 1966 by Maulana Karenga as the contemporary cultural festival known as Kwanzaa.
The stamp art, a highly symbolic design, depicts a family celebrating Kwanzaa. The prominent colors in the artwork represent the colors of the Kwanzaa flag — green for growth, red for blood, and black for the African people.
Art director Derry Noyes worked with artist Daniel Minter to create the stamp design. The new Kwanzaa stamp is being issued in panes of 20 self-adhesive Forever stamps. Forever stamps are always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail one-ounce rate.
Made in the USA.
Issue Type: Special
Issue City: Washington, DC 20066
Issue Date: September 3, 2009
Issue Series: Holiday
Item # 573640
This is a pane of 20 44–cent Eid special stamps.
On September 3, 2009, in Washington, DC, the Postal Service™ issued a 44–cent, Eid special stamp, designed/calligraphed by Mohamed Zakariya of Arlington, Virginia.
This stamp was first issued in 2001 with a 34–cent denomination, and with the same design, a 37–cent denomination in 2002, 39–cent denomination in 2006, 41–cent denomination in 2007, and 42–cent denomination in 2008.
Made in the USA.
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Christmas: Madonna and Sleeping Child by Sassoferrato
Issue Type: Special
Issue City: San Simeon, CA 93452
Issue Date: October 20, 2009
Issue Series: Holiday
This is the 44–cent Christmas: Madonna and Sleeping Child by Sassoferrato special stamp. It comes as a double–sided booklet of 20 stamps.
On October 20, 2009, in San Simeon, California, the Postal Service™ issued a 44–cent, Christmas: Madonna and Sleeping Child by Sassoferrato special stamp, designed by Carl T. Herrman of North Las Vegas, Nevada.
Since 1978, the theme of each “traditional” Christmas stamp has been the Madonna and Child. The 2009 Christmas stamp features Madonna and Sleeping Child, a painting by Italian artist Giovanni Battista Salvi, (1609–1685), more commonly known as Sassoferrato. The painting depicted on the stamp shows a blonde Madonna clothed in red and cradling the sleeping Christ Child in purple cloth. From each of the two top corners, the childlike face of a cherub looks down from the clouds. The painting is currently in the collection of Hearst Castle in California.
Made in the USA.
44¢ Christmas: Madonna and Sleeping Child by Sassoferrato
Booklet of 20 - $8.80
Self-adhesive
Hanukkah
Issue Type: Special
Issue City: New York, NY 10199 (Mega Stamp Show)
Issue Date: October 9, 2009
Issue Series: Holiday
Item # 573540
This is a pane of 20 44–cent Hanukkah special stamps.
On October 9, 2009, in New York, New York, at the Mega Stamp Show, the Postal Service™ issued a 44–cent, Hanukkah special stamp, designed by Carl T. Herrman of North Las Vegas, Nevada.
The 2009 Hanukkah design features a photograph of a menorah with nine lit candles. The menorah was designed by Lisa Regan of the Garden Deva Sculpture Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and photographed by Ira Wexler of Braddock Heights, Maryland.
The 2009 Hanukkah stamp is the third U.S. issuance to commemorate the holiday. The first Hanukkah stamp, issued in 1996, featured a stylized illustration of a menorah. A design featuring an ornate dreidel followed in 2004.
Made in the USA.
44¢ Hanukkah
Pane of 20 - $8.80
Or may be purchased individually at $0.44 each. Self-adhesive
44¢ Holiday Evergreens (Forever*)
Booklet of 20 - $8.80
Self-adhesive
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Holiday Evergreens (Forever)
Issue Type: Class Non-Denominated Special
Issue City: New York, NY 10199 (Mega Stamp Show)
Issue Date: October 21, 2010
Issue Series: Holiday
Item# 679700
These are the 44–cent Holiday Evergreens (Forever) special stamps. They are available as a Doublesided Booklet of 20.
On October 21, 2010, in New York, New York, at the Mega Stamp Show, the Postal Service™ issued four 44–cent, Holiday Evergreens (Forever) special stamps, designed by Howard E. Paine of Delaplane, Virginia.
Decorating with evergreens during the winter holiday season is a popular and appealing tradition. In 2010, the U.S. Postal Service® joined in the winter celebrations by issuing Holiday Evergreens, beautiful new stamps that feature closeup views of the foliage and cones of four different conifers: ponderosa pine, eastern red cedar, blue spruce and balsam fir.
The artist, the late Ned Seidler, was a gifted painter of nature subjects. When painting flora, he frequently used cuttings from plants and trees in his own yard as reference. He may have taken the same approach in working on this project.
Made in the USA.
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44¢ Madonna of the Candelabra by Raphael (Forever*)
Book of 20 - $8.80
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Madonna of the Candelabra by Raphael (Forever)
Issue City: New York, NY 10199 (Mega Stamp Show)
Issue Date: October 13, 2011
Issue Series: Holiday Celebrations
Item Number: 679500
The artist known to posterity as Raphael had it all — he was talented, handsome, and even-tempered. At a very young age, he became a great master of the Italian High Renaissance. A detail from his painting, Madonna of the Candelabra, showing the Madonna and Child, is the traditional Christmas stamp for 2011.
He was born Raffaello Sanzio in the city of Urbino in 1483, where his father taught him to paint. He was being called a "master" artist while still in his teens. Drawn by the reputations of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he went to Florence as a young man to soak up that city's learning.
In 1508, Raphael was summoned by Pope Julius II to Rome, where he spent the last dozen years of his short life in an inspired burst of activity. The masterpieces he produced there include the painting reproduced on this stamp, Madonna of the Candelabra by Raphael (Forever®), dating to around 1513.
Raphael ran a large and active workshop. Assistants certainly painted the angels (not shown in the stamp art) flanking the central figures in Madonna of the Candelabra, and possibly other parts. This tondo (circular painting), oil on panel, is now in the collection of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.
Madonna of the Candelabra by Raphael is being issued in books of 20 self-adhesive Forever stamps. Forever stamps are always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail one-ounce rate.
Made in the USA.
SEASONAL-NOT A FOREVER STAMP.
SEASONAL-NOT A FOREVER STAMP.
SEASONAL-NOT A FOREVER STAMP.
THIS STAMP NOT YET AVAILABLE-COMING SOON
SEASONAL-NOT A FOREVER STAMP.
SEASONAL-NOT A FOREVER STAMP.
44¢ Kwanzaa
Book of 20 - $8.80
Self-adhesive
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Issue Type: Special
Issue City: New York, NY 10199 (Mega Stamp Show)
Issue Date: October 9, 2009
Issue Series: Holiday
Item # 573440
This is a pane of 20 44–cent Kwanzaa special stamps.
On October 9, 2009, in New York, New York, at the Mega Stamp Show, the Postal Service™ issued a 44–cent, Kwanzaa special stamp, designed by Carl T. Herrman of North Las Vegas, Nevada.
With this colorful stamp, the U.S. Postal Service® celebrates Kwanzaa, a nonreligious holiday that takes place over 7 days from December 26 to January 1. Kwanzaa draws on African traditions and takes its name from the phrase for “first fruits” in Swahili, a widely spoken African language. Stamp artist Lloyd McNeill, New York, New York, created a festive, highly symbolic design to celebrate the holiday.
This is the third stamp design issued by the U.S. Postal Service in celebration of Kwanzaa. The first Kwanzaa commemorative stamp was issued in 1997.
Made in the USA.
