Object Details
- Description
- The Postal Service issued a souvenir sheet of 37-cent Lunar New Year stamps in twelve designs on January 6, 2005, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Clarence Lee of Honolulu designed the stamps. Sennett Security Products printed 108 million stamps in the gravure process.
- Stamp designer Clarence Lee, created intricate paper-cut designs for all of the twelve animals associated with the Chinese lunar calendar. Lau Bun, also of Honolulu, drew the calligraphic characters used for this souvenir sheet. The characters in the individual stamps identify the Year of the Dog, Rat, Tiger, and so on. The characters on the selvage to the left of the souvenir sheet may be translated as "Happy New Year!" The same greeting appears in English at the top of the sheet.
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin (December 9, 2004).
- unused
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- January 6, 2005
- Object number
- 2005.2012.139.3
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (multicolored) / photogravure
- Place
- National Postal Museum
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 3895c
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Contemporary (1990-present)
- Holidays & Celebrations
- Asian-Pacific American Heritage
- Animals
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_2005.2012.139.3
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8c855f208-5b2c-48ea-9b5f-ab29527336d5
