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37¢ Music Makers (4 Designs)
Folded Vending Booklet of 20
Scott# 3828b,c,d
BK 296
Plate S11111 (on cover)
# 3828b
# 3828c
# 3828d
Booklet pane of 4, #2825-3828
Booklet pane of 6, #3827-3828, 2 each #3825-3826
Booklet pane of 6, #3825-3826, 2 each #3827-3828
# 3825
# 3826
# 3827
# 3828
Reindeer with Pan Pipes
Santa Claus with Drum
Santa Claus with Trumpet
Reindeer with Horn
Series Holiday
Issue Date & City October 23, 2003, New York, NY 10199
Nationwide Sale October 24, 2003
Artist Diane Teske Harris, Billings, MT
Designer Ethel Kessler, Bethesda, MD
Art Director Ethel Kessler, Bethesda, MD
Typographer Greg Berger, Bethesda, MD
Engraver Southern Graphics
Modeler Donald H. Woo
To Press / Initial Impressions Summer, 2003 / 200.99 Million
Process Gravure
Printer Sennett Security Products (SSP)
Printed At American Packaging Corporation, Columbus, WI
Press Rotomek 5, 3000
Processed At Unique Binders, Fredericksburg, VA
Plate Size 480 stamps per revolution
Paper & Gum Type II  / Self-Adhesive
Tagging Type Pre-phosphored
Die Cut Gauge 10.5 x 10.8 on 2 or 3 sides
Colors Red, Yellow, Green, Purple, Orange
Image Area (w x h): 0.72 x 0.832 in. / 18.28 x 21.13 mm
Overall Size (w x h): 0.87 x 0.982 in. / 22.09 x 24.94 mm
Booklet Size (w x h) : 1.740 x 10.375 in. / 44.19 x 263.52 mm
Marginal Markings All peel off strips have been removed. "© 2002 USPS" • Plate numbers • Price • Barcode • USPS logo
Earliest Known Use October 23, 2003
USPS Order Numbers Vending Booklet of 20 - $7.40 - 672340
Availability Stamp Fulfillment Services, Kansas City and most post offices that have vending equipment.
Official Announcement

The Postal Service will issue 37-cent Holiday Music Makers stamps in four designs on October 23, 2003, in New York, New York.

The stamps, designed by Ethel Kessler, Bethesda, Maryland, go on sale nationwide October 24, 2003. Featuring whimsical Santas and fanciful reindeer playing horns, panpipes, and a drum, these lighthearted, colorful stamps are reminders of the joys of the season. Illustrator Diane Teske Harris of Billings, Montana, created the airbrush artwork for these colorful stamps.

The Holiday Music Makers stamps will be issued in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) pane of 20 (Item 564000), a double-sided convertible booklet of 20 (Item 672200), a folded vending booklet of 20 (Item 672300), and a set of 20 stamped cards (883400).

Note  
Varieties None

Distribution: Items 672300 and 672311, Holiday Music Makers Folded Vending Book of 20 (PSA) (Vending Use Only)

SDOs will receive automatic distributions of the Holiday Music Makers folded vending books of 20, both straight books (Item 672300) and crisscross books (Item 672311). Distributions are rounded up to the nearest master carton size (4,500 books for straight; 3,000 books for crisscross).

Initial Supply to Post Offices

SDOs will not make a subsequent automatic distribution to Post Offices. Only Post Offices equipped with the appropriate self-service vending machines may order these items from their designated SDO using a separate PS Form 17, Stamp Requisition/Stamp Return. SDOs must not distribute stamps to Post Offices before October 17, 2003.

Additional Supply

Authorized Post Offices, requiring additional books for restocking of the appropriate self-service vending machines, must requisition them from their designated SDO using PS Form 17. SDOs requiring additional books must order them from the APD using PS Form 17. For fulfilling supplemental orders from SDOs, APDs will receive additional quantities of the vendible straight books (Item 672300) and crisscross books (Item 672311).

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