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Scott# 4100a | Plate P11111 |
Series | USPS - Holiday ~ PNC3 - Holiday |
Issue Date & City | October 17, 2006, Denver, CO 80299 |
Nationwide Sale | October 18, 2006 |
Designer | Michael Osborne, Berkeley, CA |
Art Director | Michael Osborne, Berkeley, CA |
Typographer | Michael Osborne, Berkeley, CA |
Modeler | Joseph P. Sheeran |
To Press / Initial Impressions | Summer, 2006 / 700 Million |
Process | Offset / Microprinting "USPS". Located just above the "D" of Denver at the bottom of the stamp design. |
Printer | Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd. (APU) |
Printed At | Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd. (APU), Williamsville, NY |
Press | Mueller Martini, A74 |
Processed At | Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd. (APU) |
Plate Size | 880 stamps per revolution (44 booklets) |
Paper & Tagging | Prephosphored USPS Type III (Solid Tagging) |
Adhesive | Pressure Sensitive |
Die Cut Gauge | 10.8 x 10.9 on 2 or 3 sides |
Colors | Black, Cyan, Magenta,
Yellow, Gold (PMS 871) Actual Plate Numbers - White, 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): 5.76 x 2.38 in. / 146.304 x 60.452 mm |
Markings | Stamp Side:
"© 2005 USPS" • Plate Numbers • "CHRISTMAS" • "I. Chacon Denver Art Museum •
"2006" Cover Side: "© 2005 USPS" • Barcode 674900 • "CHRISTMAS" • "I. Chacon Denver Art Museum" • Stamp image • "Twenty 39¢ Self-adhesive Stamps $7.80" |
Earliest Known Use | October 17, 2006 |
USPS Order Numbers | 674940 Convertible Booklet of 20 - $7.80 |
674961
First Day Cover - $0.77 |
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Availability |
Stamp Fulfillment Services, Kansas City and most post offices |
Official Announcement |
The Postal Service™ will issue a 39-cent Christmas:
Chacón Madonna and Child with Bird special stamp in one design in a
pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) double- sided book of 20 stamps (Item 674900),
on October 17, 2006, in Denver, Colorado. The stamp, designed by Michael Osborne
of Berkeley, California, goes on sale nationwide October 18, 2006.
The stamp features an oil-on-canvas painting with gold
details titled Madonna and Child with Bird. Dating to around 1765, the
painting is attributed to Ignacio Chacón - an artist active from about 1745 to
1775 in Cuzco, Peru. The painting is now part of the Engracia and Frank Barrows
Freyer Collection of Peruvian colonial art at the Denver Art Museum. Michael Osborne slightly cropped the painting's floral
"frame" and surrounded the entire composition with a gold border that echoes
Chacón's use of gold-leaf embellishments. |
Artist / Place | Ignacio Chacón, painting from the Engracia and Frank Barrows Freyer Collection of Peruvian colonial art at the Denver Art Museum |
Press Release | Click here for the press release |
End Card | Black ink on Cream card stock. Click here for a scan. |
There is one philatelic product available for this stamp issue:
• Item 674986, Christmas: Chacón Madonna & Child with Bird Framed Art with Stamp - $35.00.
Stamp distribution offices (SDOs) will receive approximately one-third their full 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 one-fourth their full standard automatic distribution quantity for a PSA booklet using PS Form 17, Stamp Requisition/Stamp Return. SDOs must not distribute stamps to Post Offices before September 29, 2006.
SDOs will not receive a separate quantity Item 674900 for their authorized philatelic centers. Philatelic centers must be supplied their quantities from the initial automatic distribution made to SDOs.
Post Offices requiring additional booklets must requisition Item 674900 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 New York APDs will each receive 1,700,000 additional booklets; and the Denver APD will receive 520,000 additional booklets
Distribution: Item 674500 Denominated $7.80 Lady Liberty and U.S. Flag, PSA Double-Sided Booklet of 20.
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