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41¢ Louis Comfort Tiffany
(Ashton Potter)
Double-Sided Self Adhesive Convertible Booklet of 20
Scott # ???? Plate # P11111
Series USPS - American Treasures ~ PNC3 - ?
Issue Date & City August 9, 2007, Portland, OR 97208 (APS StampShow)
Nationwide Sale August 9, 2007
Designer Derry Noyes, Washington, DC
Art Director Derry Noyes, Washington, DC
Typographer Derry Noyes, Washington, DC
Artist Existing art by Louis Comfort Tiffany
Modeler Joseph Sheeran
To Press / Initial Quantity Spring 2007 / 500 Million stamps
Booklet Size 20
Printer Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd. (APU)
Press Muller Martini, A76
Process Offset / Microprinted "USPS" on mountain slope almost in the center of the stamp
Where Printed Williamsville, NY
Where Processed Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.
Plate Size & Interval 384 stamps per revolution /
Paper Type Prephosphored, USPS Type I
Adhesive Type Pressure Sensitive
Tagging Type Prephosphored, Solid Tagging
Die Cut Gauge Serpentine Die Cuts - 10.8 on 2 or 3 sides
Colors Cover Side: Special Match Cream, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black
Stamp Side: Special Match Cream, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black
Image Size (w x h) 0.84 x 1.42 in. / 21.336 x 36.068 mm
Overall Size (w x h) 0.98 x 1.56 in./24.892 x 39.624 mm
Booklet Size (w x h)

6.18 x 3.12 in./156.972 x 79.248 mm
Margin Markings Cover Side: © 2006 USPS • Plate numbers P11111 • Header “AMERICANTREASURES” • Barcode “676900” • “LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY”  • Stamp image • “Seventh in a Series” • “Twenty 41¢ Self-adhesive Stamps” • Price “$8.20”
Earliest Known Use August 9, 2007
USPS Order Numbers 676940 Convertible Booklet of 20 - $8.20
676963 First Day Cover - Set of 10 - $.79
Availability  
Official Announcement

On August 9, 2007, in Portland, Oregon, the Postal Service™ will issue a 41-cent, Louis Comfort Tiffany commemorative stamp in one design in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) double-sided booklet of 20 (Item 676900). Designed by Derry Noyes of Washington, DC, the stamp goes on sale nationwide August 9, 2007.

For this seventh issuance in the American Treasures stamp series, art director Derry Noyes of Washington, DC, chose the image of a memorial window designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848–1933). The window is Magnolias and Irises, ca. 1908, made by Tiffany Studios (1902–1938). The leaded Favrile-glass window, 60-1/4 x 42 in. (153 x 106.7 cm), was presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1981 as an anonymous gift in memory of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Frank. (Photograph (c) 1981, the Metropolitan Museum of Art.)
Variety  
Note 2007 date in the upper right corner of the design
End CardBlack ink on cream card stock. Click here for a scan

How to Order First Day of Issue Postmark

Customers have 60 days to obtain the first day of issue postmark by mail. They may purchase new stamps at their local Post Office™, or at the Postal Store® Web site at www.usps.com/shop, or by calling 800-STAMP-24. They should affix the stamps to envelopes of their choice, address the envelopes (to themselves or others), and place them in a larger envelope addressed to:

LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY stamp
POSTMASTER
PO BOX 33480
PORTLAND, OR 97208-3480

After applying the first day of issue postmark, the Postal Service will return the envelopes through the mail. There is no charge for the postmark. All orders must be postmarked by October 8, 2007.

How to Order First Day Covers

Stamp Fulfillment Services also offers first day covers for new stamp issues and Postal Service stationery items postmarked with the official first day of issue cancellation. Each item has an individual catalog number and is offered in the quarterly USA Philatelic catalog. Customers may request a free catalog by calling 800-STAMP-24 or writing to:

INFORMATION FULFILLMENT
DEPT 6270
US POSTAL SERVICE
PO BOX 219014
KANSAS CITY MO 64121-9014

Philatelic Products

There are three philatelic products available for this stamp issue:

  • Item 676961, First Day Cover, $0.79.
  • Item 676991, Ceremony Program, $6.95.
  • Item 676993, Cancellation Keepsake (First Day Cover w/Pane), $8.99.

Distribution: Item 676900, $8.20 Louis Comfort Tiffany PSA Double-sided Booklet of 20 Stamps

Stamp distribution offices (SDOs) will receive approximately 34 percent of their 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-quarter their standard automatic distribution quantity for booklets using PS Form 17, Stamp Requisition/Stamp Return. SDOs must not distribute these booklets to Post Offices before August 3, 2007.

Additional Supply

Post Offices requiring additional booklets must requisition Item 676900 from their designated SDO using PS Form 17. SDOs requiring additional booklets 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 640,000 additional booklets; and the Denver APD will receive 240,000 additional booklets.

Sales Policy

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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