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39¢ Christmas: Chacón Madonna and Child with Bird
(Ashton Potter)
Flat Double-Sided Convertible Booklet of 20

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
674986 Christmas: Chacón Madonna & Child with Bird Framed Art with Stamp - $35.00.

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.

Philatelic Products

There is one philatelic product available for this stamp issue:

• Item 674986, Christmas: Chacón Madonna & Child with Bird Framed Art with Stamp - $35.00.

Distribution: Item 674900, $7.80 Christmas: Chacón Madonna and Child with Bird Double-Sided Booklet of 20

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).

Initial Supply to Post Offices

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.

Philatelic Requirement

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.

Additional Supply

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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