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29c Year of the Boar single

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Object Details

Description

The Postal Service celebrated the Lunar New Year, Year of the Boar, with issuance of a 29-cent commemorative stamp on December 30, 1994, in Sacramento, California. The stamp features a boar, the last animal in the series of twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac. Chinese characters on the bottom left of the stamp read in English, "Year of the Boar," and the "Happy New Year!" greeting appears in the upper right corner.
Designed by Clarence Lee of Honolulu, Hawaii, the stamps were printed in the photogravure process by Stamp Venturers, Inc., and issued in sheets of twenty.
Reference:
Postal Bulletin (December 8, 1994).
mint
11.2 horizontal perforations x 11.1 vertical perforations

Credit line

Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.

Date

December 30, 1994

Object number

1995.2075.155

Type

Postage Stamps

Medium

paper; ink (multicolored); adhesive / photogravure

Place

United States of America

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National Postal Museum Collection

Data Source

National Postal Museum

Topic

Holidays & Celebrations
Asian-Pacific American Heritage
Contemporary (1990-present)
U.S. Stamps

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm852c6eea2-60f2-425d-9ace-0546c8c87c37

Record ID

npm_1995.2075.155

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