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Scott# 3890b,c,d BK 298 |
Plate S11111 | |
# 3887 # 3888 # 3889 # 3890 |
Purple Santa Claus Green Santa Claus Blue Santa Claus Red Santa Claus |
3890b - Pane of 4,
#3887-3890 3890c - Pane of 6, #3889-3890, 2 each #3887-3888 3890d - Pane of 6, #3887-3888, 2 each #3889-3890 |
Series | Holiday | |
Issue Date & City | November 16, 2004, New York, NY 10199 | |
Nationwide Sale | November 17, 2004 | |
Photographer | Sally Andersen-Bruce, New Milford, CT | |
Designer | Derry Noyes, Washington, DC | |
Art Director | Derry Noyes, Washington, DC | |
Typographer | Derry Noyes, Washington, DC | |
Engraver | Southern Graphics Systems | |
Modeler | Donald H. Woo | |
To Press / Initial Impressions | Summer, 2004 / 200,990,000 stamps | |
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 | Prephosphored | |
Die Cut Gauge | 10.5 x 10.8 on 2 or 3 sides | |
Colors | Magenta, Yellow, Cyan, Black, White | |
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): 1.74 x 10.375 in. / 44.19 x 263.52 mm | |
Marginal Markings | On Cover: "© 2003 USPS" Plate Numbers "Holiday Ornaments" "Twenty 37c Self-adhesive Stamps" "4 different designs" Price Barcode Website address Promotional text USPS Logo | |
Earliest Known Use | November 17, 2004 | |
USPS Order Numbers | Flat Vending
Booklet of 20 - $7.40 - 673340 First Day Cover, Set of 4 - $3.00 - 673263 (May not be Vending Book Stamps) |
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Availability | Stamp Fulfillment Services, Kansas City / Providence / Tucson | |
Official Announcement | The Postal Service will issue 37-cent, Holiday Ornaments special stamps in four designs in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) pane of 20 stamps (Item 566400), on November 16, 2004, in New York, New York. The stamps, designed by Derry Noyes of Washington, DC, go on sale nationwide November 17, 2004. The stamps feature photographs by Sally Andersen- Bruce of painted glass Santa ornaments. The ornaments were made in 1999 in Lauscha, Germany, for D. Blümchen & Company of Ridgewood, New Jersey, and were hand- painted by designer Diane S. Boyce. Nestled in tissue paper, these shiny Santas evoke happy memories of lights, tinsel, and other favorite Christmas tree decorations. The stamps will also be issued in a double-sided booklet of 20 (Item 673200), a folded vending book of 20 (Item 673300), and an ATM sheetlet of 18 stamps (Item 566900). |
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Note | ||
Varieties | None |
SDOs will receive automatic distributions of the Holiday Ornaments folded vending books of 20, both straight packaging (Item 673300) and crisscross packaging (Item 673311). Distributions are rounded up to the nearest master carton size (4,500 books for straight; 3,000 books for crisscross).
SDOs will not make a subsequent automatic distribution to Post Offices. Only Post Offices equipped with the appropriate self-service vending machines may order Items 673300 and 673311 from their designated SDO using a separate PS Form 17, Stamp Requisition/Stamp Return. SDOs must not distribute stamps to Post Offices before November 10, 2004.
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 appropriate APD using PS Form 17.
For fulfilling supplemental orders from SDOs, APDs will receive additional quantities of the vendible straight books (Item 673300) and crisscross books (Item 673311).
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