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| Scott # 3536 | Plate B1111 |
| Series | Holiday Celebrations |
| Format | Convertible Booklet of 20 |
| Issue Date & City | October 10, 2001, Philadelphia, PA 19104 |
| Nationwide Sale | October 11, 2001 |
| Artist | Lorenzo Costa, Painting courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art Plate |
| Designer | Richard Sheaff, Scottsdale, AZ 85258 |
| Engraver | Acitronics |
| Art Director | Richard Sheaff, Scottsdale, AZ 85258 |
| Typographer | Richard Sheaff, Scottsdale, AZ 85258 |
| Modeler | Banknote Corporation of America, Inc. (BCA) / Guilford Gravure |
| Process | Gravure |
| Printer | Banknote Corporation of America, Inc. (BCA) |
| Printed At | Guilford Gravure, Guilford, CT |
| Press Type | Cerutti, R118 |
| To Press / Initial Print Quantity | Fall 2001 / 800 million stamps |
| Booklet Size | 20 stamps, 5 across x 4 down / Stamp has a vertical orientation |
| Paper Type | Pre-phosphored, Type II |
| Gum Type | Self-adhesive |
| Processed At | Guilford Gravure, Guilford, CT |
| Die Cut Gauge | 11.3 x 11.5 (valley/peak) |
| Colors | Black, Yellow, Cyan, Magenta |
| Image Area | 0.77 x 0.89 in. / 19.56 x 22.61 mm |
| Overall Size | 0.91 x 1.19 in. / 23.11 x 30.23 mm |
| Booklet Size | 4.55 x 5.0 in. / 115.57 x 127.0 mm |
| Plate Size | 500 stamps per revolution |
| Marginal Markings | "© 1999 USPS" · Plate Numbers · Price · Peel here to fold · Self-adhesive stamps · DO NOT WET |
| USPS Catalog Item Numbers | 665240 Booklet of 20 -
$6.80 665261 First Day Cover - $0.55 |
| Earliest Known Use | October 10, 2001 |
| Official Announcement | The Postal Service will issue a 34-cent Christmas:Virgin and Child stamp (Item Number 665200) in a self- adhesive, double-sided convertible booklet of 20, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 10, 2001. The stamp, designed by Richard Sheaff of Scottsdale, Arizona, and based on a painting by artist Lorenzo Costa, goes on sale nationwide October 11, 2001. Coinciding with the 125th anniversary of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2001, this latest offering in the Holiday Celebrations series features a detail of Italian Renaissance painter Lorenzo Costa's oil-on-panel Virgin and Child, circa 1490. Lorenzo Costa is well represented in major European galleries; this painting is a rare example of Costa's work in an American museum. |
| Varieties | None |
| End Card | Cream colored card stock with Black Ink. Click here for photo. |
There are no philatelic products for this stamp issue.
Stamp distribution offices (SDOs) will receive one-half of their standard automatic distribution quantities for a PSA booklet of 20 stamps. Distributions are rounded up to the nearest master carton size (4,000 stamps).
SDOs will make a subsequent automatic distribution to Post Offices for one-half of their standard automatic distribution quantities using PS Form 3309, Advice of Shipment/Stamp Invoice, and PS Form 17, Stamp Requisition. SDOs must not distribute stamps to Post Offices before October 3, 2001.
Post Offices requiring additional stamps must requisition them from their designated SDO using PS Form 17. SDOs requiring additional stamps must order them from the appropriate accountable paper depository (APD) using PS Form 17.
For fulfilling supplemental orders from SDOs, the San Francisco, Chicago, Memphis, and Washington, DC, APDs will each receive 596,000 additional booklets; the New York APD will receive 600,000 additional booklets; and the Denver APD will receive 300,000 additional booklets.
Authorized philatelic centers requiring the $6.80 Christmas: Virgin and Child PSA double-sided booklet of 20 must order Item Number 665200 from their designated SDO using a separate PS Form 17.
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