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All are Showtime Grade Forever Charge per unit stamps unless indicated. For each of these issues, the borderline is 120 days after the result date.
TBD = To Be Determined; PSA = Pressure-sensitive Adhesive; Forever stamps are always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail
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Current Postage stamp Issues 2022
Eugenie Clark Forever Stamp
May iv | Sarasota, FL | PSA pane of 20
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Affectionately known as the "Shark Lady," pioneering marine biologist Eugenie Clark (1922-2015) spent her career working tirelessly to alter public perception nigh sharks as well as to preserve marine environments effectually the world. The postage art features a digital collage, including a photograph of Clark and a lemon shark. Wavy blueish elements in the background evoke an undersea scene.
George Morrison Forever Stamps
April 29 | Chiliad Portage, MN | 5 designs in PSA pane of 20
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Ane of the nation'south greatest modernist artists and a founding figure of Native American modernism, George Morrison (1919-2000) challenged prevailing ideas of what Native American fine art should exist, arguing that an creative person's identity tin can exist independently from the nature of the fine art he creates. Morrison is all-time known for his abstract landscapes and awe-inspiring wood collages. A pane of 20 colorful stamps showcases 5 of Morrison's artworks.
Flags on Barns Presort Standard Charge per unit Stamps
April 14 | Halifax, PA | PSA coils of 3,000 and ten,000
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Painted flags tin exist found on barns in almost every region of the United States. 4 colorful pencil and watercolor illustrations of flags on barns grace the latest issuance of stamps available for bulk-mail users. The barns are set in landscapes inspired by the seasons and different regions of the U.s.a.. Stephanie Bower designed and illustrated the stamps. Antonio Alcalá was the fine art director.
When a mailer presorts mail so that it is sorted to the finest extent required by the standards of the price claimed, the benefit is pregnant savings on postage stamp every bit the mailer is doing some of the work Postal People would otherwise have to exercise.
Sunflower Boutonniere Two-Ounce Stamp
March 24 | Lawrence, KS | PSA pane of twenty
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The Sunflower Bouquet 2-ounce postage features an array of sunflowers, irises and other small flowers priced to accommodate the weight of heavy invitations, oversize greeting cards and other mailings that require extra postage. The Sunflower Bouquet postage is similar in design to the new Tulips Forever stamp, and the two form a natural pair.
Tulip Forever Postage
March 24 | Mount Vernon, WA | PSA pane of 20
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The Tulips Forever stamp features a luminous, almost ethereal assortment of overlapping tulips in red, orange, yellow, purple and white confronting a bright white groundwork. Like in design to the 2-ounce Sunflower Bouquet postage, this postage stamp can be used on RSVP envelopes often enclosed with wedding invitations. In improver to regular correspondence, it is also perfect for political party invitations, thank-yous notes and important announcements. This postage was designed by art director Ethel Kessler, with digital photography past Harold Davis.
African Daisy Global Forever Rate Stamp
March 14 | Kansas City, MO (no ceremony) | PSA pane of 10
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This circular, Global stamp can exist used to mail a one-ounce letter or postcard to whatsoever country to which First-Class Mail service International service is available. This Forever postage stamp will have a postage value equivalent to the price of the single-piece Showtime-Class Mail International ane-ounce machineable alphabetic character in issue at the time of employ ($1.xxx as of January i, 2022).
The latest version of the Global Forever Charge per unit issues features the intricate blueprint of a colorful African daisy, photographed from higher up. Native to southern Africa and ofttimes chosen the African daisy, plants from the Osteospermum genus are widely bachelor in U.S. nurseries. Greg Breeding designed the postage stamp with existing photography by Cindy Dyer. William Gicker was the fine art director.
Mountain Flora Forever Stamp
March 14 | Tall, WY| 4 designs in Booklets of twenty and coils of 3,000 and 10,000
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These iv new stamps gloat the beauty of mountain flowers. Each Mountain Flora postage features a unlike bloom: a purple pasqueflower, an orange-red wood lily, a vivid yellow alpine buttercup and a dark pinkish Forest' rose. The artist's manus-drawn illustrations, refined digitally, create a block-print aesthetic.
Title 9 Forever Postage
March 3 | Washington, D.C. | 4 designs in PSA pane of 20
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This postage release commemorates the 50th anniversary of the passage of Championship Nine, the ceremonious rights constabulary prohibiting bigotry on the basis of sex in any educational program or activeness receiving federal financial assist. Practical at educational institutions over a broad range of programs, its most visible impact has been on schoolhouse athletics. Four different stamps feature dark blue silhouettes of one of four female athletes: a runner, a swimmer, a gymnast and a soccer player. Yellow laurel branches, symbolic of victory, rest in their pilus and on the swimmer's cap.
Palace of Fine Arts $26.95 Express Mail Postage stamp
February 14 | San Francisco, CA (no ceremony) | PSA pane of 4
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An eye-catching sight in the Marina District of San Francisco, the Palace of Fine Arts has long been a source of pride for residents and an attraction for visitors from effectually the world. This Priority Post Express stamp celebrates the iconic architectural landmark.
The postage features a digital illustration showing the rotunda and part of the colonnades of the Palace of Fine Arts, with a pocket-sized lagoon in the foreground. Art director Greg Breeding designed the stamp with original art by Dan Cosgrove.
Information technology was originally synthetic for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, which was previewed on a set of 1913 U.S. stamps. Completely renovated between 1964 and 1974, information technology is now a commercially operated venue that is available for weddings, corporate, and other events.
Monument Valley $eight.95 Priority Mail Stamp
February 14 | Monument Valley, UT (no ceremony) | PSA pane of 4
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This Priority Post stamp celebrates Monument Valley, which is located on the Utah-Arizona state line and is officially a big area that includes much of the surrounding Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, a Navajo Nation equivalent to a national park.
For hundreds of millions of years, materials that eroded from the early on Stone Mountains deposited layer upon layer of sediment. Natural forces of current of air and water that eroded the state spent the concluding l one thousand thousand years cut into and peeling away at the surface of the plateau. The uncomplicated wearing downwards of altering layers of soft and hard stone slowly revealed the natural wonders of Monument Valley today.
The digital illustration is based on photographs of Monument Valley, including a view facing northwest at sunrise. Art director Greg Breeding designed the stamp with original art by Dan Cosgrove.
Butterfly Garden Flowers Nondenominated Stamp (5¢ assigned value)
February one | Pine Mountain, GA | 2 designs in PSA coils of 3,000 and ten,000
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The two nondenominated Butterfly Garden Flowers stamps are intended for bulk mailings by authorized nonprofit organizations. Each stamp features i of two flowers that butterflies love to visit: scabiosas or cosmos. Inspired by block-printed textile and pattern pattern, the artist hand-carved the images into linoleum blocks. After inking the blocks, she pressed them onto paper, scanned the images and added color digitally. Mailers find that their mail service is more likely to be opened if there is a postage stamp on the envelope rather than a printed non-stamp indicia, thus the employ of these non-denominated stamps. The mailer purchases the stamps at 5¢ each, then make up the difference between that 5¢ and the going charge per unit for their mail service, which depends in role on how they set up it.
Pine Mountain was selected as the FDOI site because it is the location of the Cecil B. Day Butterfly Eye, where typically 1,000 or more collywobbles flutter freely about in one of North America's largest tropical butterfly conservatories. The Day Butterfly Center is a living, dynamic, glass-enclosed environs in which a diverseness of tropical plants nourish the residents and new arrivals emerge from their chrysalides, dry their wings, and begin their very first fly-beats. The Pine Mountain expanse also includes Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park and is not far from the Warm Springs "Little White House" where Roosevelt would go to restore himself during his years in office, and which is pictured on a 1945 commemorative.
Black Heritage, Edmonia Lewis Forever Stamp
January 26 | Washington, DC | PSA Pane of 20
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The 45th postage stamp in the Black Heritage series honors sculptor Edmonia Lewis (circa 1844-1907). As the first African American and Native American sculptor to achieve international recognition, Lewis challenged social barriers and assumptions about artists in mid-19th century America. The stamp art is a casein-on-wood portrait of Lewis, based on a photograph taken in Boston betwixt 1864 and 1871.
Lunar New year, Year of the Tiger Forever Stamp
January twenty | New York, NY | PSA Pane of xx
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The third of 12 stamps in the latest Lunar New Year stamp series celebrates the Year of the Tiger. Calling to listen the elaborately decorated masks used in the dragon or panthera leo dances oft performed in Lunar New Year parades, this three-dimensional mask depicting a tiger is a contemporary take on the long tradition of paper-cut folk art crafts created during this auspicious time of twelvemonth. The tiger mask pattern incorporates colors and patterns symbolic to the holiday.
The tiger is the tertiary of the 12 zodiac animal signs associated with the Chinese lunar calendar. As with other zodiac signs, personality traits and other attributes are ofttimes associated with people born in the year of a particular animate being. Those born during the Year of the Tiger may be seen every bit brave, confident and well-liked by others. Blue, orangish and greyness are lucky colors for Tigers, and yellow lilies and cineraria flowers may also bring good luck.
Love Flowers Forever Stamps
January fourteen | Romeo, MI | ii designs in panes of xx
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The two new Love stamps celebrate the joy that flowers bring. Inspired past old European folk art, the stamps characteristic digital illustrations with similar designs: three round, stylized blooms ranging symmetrically along the summit, with smaller round blossoms in each of the lower corners. Twisting vines, which agree small multi-petaled flowers, form abstract middle shapes. The letters of the word "Dearest" are interspersed among the decorative vines.
The Postal People remind us that, while the stamps are being issued in advance for use on Valentine's greetings, the Love theme can be applied all year round.
The town was named Romeo considering the founders wanted something romantic. On February xiv of each twelvemonth, the village of Romeo offers a special dual postmark with the customs of Juliette, Georgia.
Blueberries 4¢ Stamp
January 9 | Blue Hill, ME | Panes of 20 and Coils of 3,000 and 10,000
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The new 4-cent Blueberries postage features a pen, ink and watercolor illustration of a cluster of blueberries and leaves. Blueberries will join other similarly designed low-denomination stamps: 1-cent Apples, two-cent Meyer Lemons, 3-cent Strawberries, 5-cent Grapes and 10-cent Pears.
Us Flags Forever Stamp
January 9 | Findlay, OH | Panes of 20, booklets of 20, and coils of 100, iii,000 and 10,000
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The latest U.S. flag stamp art is a painting of iii flags in a circular germination, reminiscent of the 50 flags encircling the Washington Monument. The artist used iii photographs of the same flag taken seconds apart every bit reference and stitched together the images into a single limerick. Findlay was officially recognized as "Flag Metropolis, USA" on May 7, 1974.
Hereafter Stamp Issues 2022
Women's Rowing Forever Stamps
May 13 | Philadelphia, PA | 2 designs in PSA pane of 20
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These stamps gloat women's rowing, a svelte but demanding sport in which American women have excelled, including in the Olympics. The artwork, which covers the entire pane, is a stylized illustration of five eight-person rowing teams competing or practicing. Four stamp designs are featured in a pane of xx stamps arranged equally v staggered rows of four.
Mighty Mississippi Forever Stamps
May 23 | Memphis, TN | 10 designs in PSA pane of 10
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The issue honors the Mississippi river with a portfolio of x different photographic images. Arranged on the pane in five rows of two stamps each, the images stand for to the states' north-due south and west-east sequence along the Mississippi River. Small type on the margin of each stamp indicates its location:
• Summit row: Minnesota and Wisconsin;
• 2d row: Iowa and Illinois;
• Third row: Missouri and Kentucky;
• 4th row: Arkansas and Tennessee; and
• Bottom row: Louisiana and Mississippi.
The reverse features a map of the central United States detailing the river's course and its major tributaries. It is superimposed on a blue monochromatic version of the selvage images. Art director Ethel Kessler designed the stamp pane using existing photographs.
Floral Geometry $2 and $5 Rate Stamps
June xx | Kansas City, MO | $2 in panes of 10, $5 in panes of four
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The two similarly designed Floral Geometry stamps, denominated at $ii and $5, lend an elegant and contemporary advent to packages, big envelopes and other mailings. The postage art features a serial of overlapping geometric shapes that mimic the symmetry of floral patterns institute in nature. The watercolor backgrounds and the glimmer of the foil-stamped designs and typography create a sophisticated wait.
The stamps were designed and created by the business firm Spaeth Hill. Antonio Alcalá was the art director. They supplant the 2018 $1, $ii and $5 stamps that featured the head of the Statue of Liberty on the U.S. Capitol Dome, still one more effect that has transitioned from historical to floral designs.
Pony Cars Forever Stamps
August 25 | Sacramento, CA at Peachy American Stamp Show | 5 designs in PSA pane of 20
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Over the past six decades, pony cars accept get a uniquely American obsession, bringing a youthful spirit to the automotive world. These stamps celebrate v iconic U.S. automobiles — the 1969 Ford Mustang Dominate 302, the 1970 Contrivance Challenger R/T, the 1969 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28, the 1967 Mercury Cougar XR-7 GT and the 1969 AMC Javelin SST. The bold and dramatic artwork, painted with oils on panel, captures the energy and mystique of pony cars.
Shel Silverstein Forever Stamp
April 8 | Chicago, IL | PSA pane of twenty
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The USPS declaration for this postage reads: "The extraordinarily versatile Shel Silverstein (1930–1999) was i of the 20th century'south nearly imaginative authors and illustrators. His picture book "The Giving Tree" and his quirky poetry collections are dear by children everywhere. The stamp art features a version of the analogy of a boy catching an apple that appears on the comprehend of "The Giving Tree." Published in 1964, the best-selling tale of selflessness is considered a children's literature classic. Fine art manager Derry Noyes designed the stamp."
But there was much more to Silverstein's versatility. From Wikipidia, but a few of many works: "his cartoons appeared in bug of Playboy from 1957 through the mid-1970s; Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book (1961), his first volume [was] of new, original material for adults; Silverstein also wrote Greenbacks's biggest hit, 'A Boy Named Sue' [and] lyrics and music for most of the Dr. Claw & the Medicine Bear witness songs on their first few albums; Silverstein had a popular following on Dr. Demento's radio evidence; wrote more than 100 one-act plays."
Mariachi Forever Stamps
July 15 | Albuquerque, NM | 5 designs in PSA pane of 20
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Filled with passion, rhythm and stories of life, love and loss, mariachi music is an integral element of Mexican American culture that has become deeply rooted in the U.s.a. and has fans effectually the earth. Each of the five stamps in this pane of twenty features a musician dressed in a traje de charro, the traditional outfit of mariachi performers, playing one of five iconic mariachi instruments: a guitar, an acoustic bass guitar chosen a guitarrón, a high-pitched stringed instrument known as a vihuela, a violin and a trumpet. Rafael López designed the stamps and created the art. Derry Noyes was the art manager.
The July 15 beginning mean solar day of outcome coincides with the opening day of the 2022 Mariachi Spectacular Showcase, with performances from unproblematic school to open competition winners, who travel to Albuquerque to perform.
Women Cryptologists of World War 2 Forever Postage
Date TBD | Site TBD | Format TBD
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This stamp honors all of the women cryptologists of World War II. 1 of the conflict's all-time-kept secrets, their service played an costive role in the Allied victory. The postage art features an image from a World War 2–era WAVES recruitment poster with an overlay of characters from the "Imperial" lawmaking. In the pane selvage, seemingly random letters can exist deciphered to reveal some key words. The contrary side of the pane discloses the cipher needed to read the words.
Distinguished Americans, Katharine Graham, Ii-Ounce Stamp
June 14 | Washington, DC | Format TBD
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The 17th postage stamp in the Distinguished Americans serial honors Katharine Graham (1917-2001), the first female person head of a Fortune 500 company and a pivotal figure during turbulent moments in American history. The postage features an oil portrait of Graham, based on a photo taken in the 1970s, during the height of her influence as possessor and president of The Washington Mail Co., where she was also publisher of its flagship newspaper. Art manager Derry Noyes designed the postage stamp with original art by Lynn Staley.
Pete Seeger Forever Stamps
July 21 | Newport, RI | Format TBD
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The 10th postage stamp in the Music Icons serial honors Pete Seeger (1919-2014), a champion of traditional music and its power to inspire activism. Seeger's clear tenor vocalization, iconic banjo and enormous charisma transformed concerts into singalongs. The stamp fine art features a color-tinted black-and-white photograph of Seeger singing and playing his banjo in the early 1960s, by Dan Seeger, the performer's son. 1 side of the pane includes 16 stamps and the prototype of a sliver of a record seeming to peek out the top of the sleeve. A larger version of the postage stamp art photograph appears on the reverse side.
Pete Seeger played a key role in the founding and growth of the world-famous Newport Folk Festival.
National Marine Sanctuaries Forever Stamps
August v | Santa Cruz, CA | 16 designs in format TBD
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For fifty years, U.S. marine sanctuaries and marine national monuments take protected areas with special ecological, cultural and historical significance. Each of the xvi stamps on the pane features a photograph from a site that is part of the National Marine Sanctuary System, showcasing some of our nation'due south precious natural treasures. A map of the National Marine Sanctuary System is printed on the back of the pane.
Santa Cruz is abode to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Overlooking the Pacific Ocean, it is ane of America'south largest marine sanctuaries.
Elephants Forever Stamp
Baronial 12 | Hohenwald, TN | Format TBD
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This lighthearted and playful stamp celebrates America's affection for elephants. A graphic analogy of an elephant interacting with its young calf represents the loving nature of these love animals. Two stylized plants and a brilliant orange lord's day add whimsy and colour.
The First Day site, Hohenwald, Tenn., is the home of the The Elephant Sanctuary, the largest natural-habitat sanctuary for elephants in the U.S.
Peanuts Forever Stamps
Date TBD | Site TBD | PSA pane of 20
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Ten new stamps salute the birth centennial of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz whose "Peanuts" characters are some of the all-time known and nearly dear in all of American culture. For 5 decades, Schulz alone wrote and drew nigh 18,000 strips, the last one published the day subsequently he died. Each grapheme reflects Schulz's rich imagination and neat humanity. His resonant stories found humor in life's painful realities including rejection, insecurity and unrequited love.
The ten Peanuts stamps course a frame around a 1987 photograph of Schulz. Fine art director Greg Convenance designed the stamps from Schulz'due south artwork and an existing photograph by Douglas Kirkland.
James Webb Space Telescope Forever Postage stamp
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This postage stamp recognizes NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The largest and almost complex telescope ever deployed in space, information technology is capable of peering directly into the early cosmos and studying every phase of cosmic history. Launched on Dec. 25, 2021, Webb now orbits the Sun virtually a million miles abroad from Earth.
The image on the stamp is an artist's digitally created delineation of the telescope confronting a dazzling starscape. A photo of a star and distant space in the full pane margin was taken past Webb early in its mission, brilliantly confirming the perfect alignment of the telescope's 18 mirror segments.
Art director Derry Noyes designed the stamp using existing fine art by James Vaughan and an image provided past NASA/Space Telescope Scientific discipline Constitute.
Snowy Dazzler Forever Stamps
Date TBD | Guilford, IN | Format TBD
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Bringing to 22 the number of U.S. 2022 stamps devoted to floral themes, these stamps gloat the warmth and cheer that flowers and berries bring to our natural landscapes, even after a surprise snow. In these hand-sketched and painted designs, the creative person uses lite, shadow and luminous colour to evoke the beauty of 10 species: camellia, winter aconite, crocus, hellebore, winterberry, pansy, plum flower, grape hyacinth, daffodil and ranunculus.
Derry Noyes designed the stamps with original oil paintings past Gregory Manchess.
Hanukkah Forever Stamp
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The Postal Service continues its tradition of celebrating the joyous Jewish vacation of Hanukkah with a stamp blueprint that features an original wall-hanging. The fiber art was mitt-dyed, appliquéd and quilted to form a colorful abstract image of a hanukiah, the nine-branch candelabra used only at Hanukkah. The festival is observed by lighting the candles of a candelabrum with nine branches, commonly called a menorah or hanukkiah. One branch is typically placed in a higher place or below the others and its candle is used to light the other viii candles. Jeanette Kuvin Oren was the stamp designer and artist. Ethel Kessler was the art director.
In 2022 Hanukkah begins on the evening of December eighteen and ends on the evening of Dec 26.
Virgin and Child Forever Stamp
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This yr'due south Virgin and Child postage features "Virgin and Kid," an oil-on-panel painting from the showtime half of the 16th century by a Florentine artist known as the Master of the Scandicci Lamentation. This painting is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Per Wikipedia, the artist, whose name is Francesco Granacci, was born in 1469 and was trained in Florence in the workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio. His primeval works show the strong influence of Ghirlandaio as well as Filippino Lippi, who might have been Granacci's offset primary. of particular interest, Granacci was a lifelong friends of Michelangelo and was among the artists who were asked to help Michelangelo with the Sistine chapel ceiling.
Fine art manager Greg Breeding designed the postage stamp.
Kwanzaa Forever Stamp
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In 2022 the Postal service problems its ninth postage in celebration of Kwanzaa, a holiday with origins in aboriginal and mod first-harvest festivities from across the African continent. Kwanzaa incorporates and reimagines many communal traditions as a contemporary commemoration and reaffirmation of African American culture.
The stamp design depicts a girl and a boy dressed in robes akin to spiritual garments, with a kinara (candleholder) and seven lit candles (mishumaa saba) in forepart of them. The kinara is the focal signal effectually which friends and family gather and identify meaningful objects. In 2022 Kwanzaa begins on December 26 and ends on January 1.
Art managing director Antonio Alcalá designed the stamp with original artwork by Erin Robinson.
Holiday Elves Forever Stamps
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The Post evokes the holiday spirit with iv new se-tenant stamps featuring a colorful digital illustration of elves preparing toys on a winding conveyor chugalug in a snowfall-laden woods. Similar many dear Christmas traditions—including Santa Claus himself—elves did not become a well-established function of the holidays in America until—the 19th century. In the 20th century, as elves became firmly rooted in American Christmas lore, they eventually became office of holiday television specials, films and books.
Don Clark was the artist and postage stamp designer. Antonio Alcalá was the art director.
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