34c Year of the Snake single

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Object Details

Description

The Postal Service issued a 34-cent Lunar New Year: Year of the Snake commemorative stamp in Oakland, California, on January 20, 2001. The stamp was designed and illustrated by Clarence Lee of Honolulu, Hawaii.

This stamp is the ninth in the award-winning Lunar New Year series of twelve stamps. Clarence Lee, an American of Chinese descent, created the stamp art, which combines a paper-cut design of a snake with traditional calligraphy drawn by Lau Bun. The Chinese characters translate as "Year of the Snake."

Sterling Sommer printed 55 million stamps in panes of twenty. The stamps were printed in the offset process with microprinting "USPS."

Reference:

Postal Bulletin (December 28, 2000).

34-cent

Issued January 20, 2001

multicolored

Credit line

Date

January 20, 2001

Object number

2002.2010.10

Type

Postage Stamps

Medium

paper; ink; adhesive

Dimensions

2.5 x 4 cm (1 x 1 9/16 in.)

Place

United States of America

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National Postal Museum Collection

Data Source

National Postal Museum

Topic

Holidays & Celebrations

Contemporary (1990-present)

Asian-Pacific American Heritage

Animals

U.S. Stamps

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8e545c67a-22c8-47ec-9ffa-c2aacede8689

Record ID

npm_2002.2010.10