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| Scott# 3879a | Plate P1111 |
| Series | Christmas |
| Issue Date & City | October 14, 2004, New York, NY 10199 |
| Nationwide Sale | October 15, 2004 |
| Artist | Lorenzo Monaco, painting from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. |
| Designer | Richard Sheaff, Scottsdale, AZ 85258 |
| Art Director | Richard Sheaff, Scottsdale, AZ 85258 |
| Typographer | Richard Sheaff, Scottsdale, AZ 85258 |
| Modeler | Joseph Sheeran |
| To Press / Initial Impressions | Summer, 2003 / 776.4 Million |
| Process | Offset/Microprint "USPS" |
| Printer | Ashton Potter USA Ltd. (APU) |
| Printed At | Williamsville, NY |
| Press | Mueller Martini, A 74 |
| Processed At | Ashton Potter USA Ltd. (APU) |
| Plate Size | 880 stamps per revolution |
| Paper & Gum | Pressure Sensitive Adhesive |
| Tagging Type | Prephosphored Type II |
| Die Cut Gauge | 10.8 x 11.0 |
| Colors | Black, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow |
| Image Area | (w x h): 0.77 x 1.050 in. / 19.558 x 26.67 mm |
| Overall Size | (w x h): 0.91 x 1.19 in. / 23.114 x 30.226 mm |
| Full Booklet Size | (w x h): 2.38 x 5.76 in. / 60.452 x 146.304 mm |
| Marginal Markings | Stamp Side: "© 2003
USPS" • Plate Numbers • "Peel here to fold" Cover Side: "© 2003 USPS" • "Twenty 37-cent First-Class Self-adhesive stamps" • Price • Barcode |
| Earliest Known Use | October 15, 2004 |
| USPS Order Numbers | Double Sided Convertible Booklet of 20 - $7.40 - 673440 |
| First Day Cover - $0.75 - 673461 | |
| Availability | Stamp Fulfillment Services, Kansas City and most post offices |
| Official Announcement | The Postal Service™ will issue a 37-cent, Christmas: Madonna and Child by Lorenzo Monaco special stamp in one design in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) double-sided book of 20 stamps (Item 673400), on October 14, 2004, in New York, New York. The stamp, designed by Richard Sheaff, Scottsdale, Arizona, goes on sale nationwide October 15, 2004. The Christmas stamps, formerly known as Holiday Traditional stamps, adorn the envelopes of millions of greeting cards each year. This year, the stamp design is a detail of a tempera-on-panel Madonna and Child by Florentine painter Lorenzo Monaco. The panel dates from 1413 and is part of the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. |
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| End Card | Black ink on cream card. Click HERE for a scan. |
Stamp distribution offices (SDOs) will receive approximately one-half of their standard automatic distribution quantity for a PSA booklet. Distributions are rounded up to the nearest master carton size (4,000 booklets).
SDOs will make a subsequent automatic distribution to Post Offices of approximately one-half of their standard automatic distribution quantities using PS Form 17, Stamp Requisition/Stamp Return. SDOs must not distribute stamps to Post Offices before October 8, 2004.
Post Offices requiring additional booklets 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 Chicago, Memphis, and New York APDs will each receive 700,000 additional booklets; the San Francisco APD will receive 600,000 additional booklets; and the Denver APD will receive 300,000 additional booklets.
Authorized philatelic centers requiring the $7.40 Madonna and Child by Lorenzo Monaco double-sided booklet of 20 must order Item 673400 from their designated SDO using a separate PS Form 17.
All Post Offices must acquire and maintain a supply of each new commemorative stamp as long as customer demand exists, until inventory is depleted, or until the stamp is officially withdrawn from sale. If supplies run low, Post Offices must reorder additional quantities using their normal ordering procedures.
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