34c Year of the Horse single

Object Details

Description

The Postal Service issued a 34-cent 2002 Lunar New Year, Year of the Horse commemorative stamp in New York, New York, on February 11, 2002. The stamp, designed and illustrated by Clarence Lee of Honolulu, Hawaii, went on sale nationwide January 15, 2002.

In the 2002 Chinese lunar calendar, the Year of the Horse began on February 12. The US Postal Service marked the occasion with the issuance of the tenth stamp in the award-winning Lunar New Year Series.

The Banknote Corporation of America, Inc., printed 70 million stamps in the offset process with microprinting "USA." The stamp was issued in a pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) pane of twenty.

Reference:

Postal Bulletin (December 13, 2001).

mint

Credit line

Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.

January 8, 2002

Object number

2008.2007.165

Type

Postage Stamps

Medium

paper; ink (multicolored) / lithographed

Place

United States of America

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National Postal Museum Collection

Title

Scott Catalogue USA 3559

National Postal Museum

Topic

Holidays & Celebrations

Contemporary (1990-present)

Asian-Pacific American Heritage

Animals

U.S. Stamps

Record ID

npm_2008.2007.165

Metadata Usage (text)

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GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8a32e1980-323a-43fc-94ab-8c4b52f3546a