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Medium:
paper; ink (multicolored)/ lithographed; engraved
Type:
Postage Stamps
Place:
United States of America
Date:
January 19, 1996
Description:
The Postal Service issued the 32-cent Winter Garden Flowers stamp on January 19, 1996, in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
Designed by Ned Seidler of Hampton Bays, New York, the stamps feature five designs of the following colorful winter garden flowers: crocus, winter aconite, pansy, snowdrop, and anemone. These flowers are a group of the hardiest plants that grow in any part of the United States that experiences winter.
The 1996 booklet features the fourth season in a series of garden flowers booklets. The Winter Garden Flowers stamps were produced by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing In the offset/intaglio process.
Reference: Postal Bulletin (December 21, 1995)
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Credit line:
Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
Object number:
1997.2004.11
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National Postal Museum Collection
Data Source:
National Postal Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8f868d493-0406-429f-a8fd-df9b6b1e2afc
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:npm_1997.2004.11