Object Details
Description
The Postal Service issued Our Wedding special stamps on March 1, 2006, in New York, New York. These stamps were available in two formats: a pressure-sensitive (PSA) combination booklet of forty stamps (twenty 39-cent stamps and twenty 63-cent stamps) and a PSA convertible booklet of twenty 39-cent stamps.
Designer Michael Osborne of Berkeley, California, created the 2006 Our Wedding stamps especially for mailing wedding invitations and RSVPs. Both stamps feature an illustration of a white dove -- a time-honored symbol of peace, love, and fidelity --and a heart surrounded by calligraphic flourishes set against lightly colored background (lavender for one-ounce denomination and light green for two-ounce denomination). The stamp art is based on elegant calligraphic designs used to embellish correspondence during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Ashton-Potter (USA), Ltd., produced 200 million stamps on the offset press.
Reference:
Postal Bulletin (February 2, 2006).
unused
Credit line
Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
Date
March 1, 2006
Object number
2006.2023.379
Type
Postage Stamps
Medium
paper; ink (multicolored)/ lithographed
Place
New York
United States of America
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Data Source
National Postal Museum
Topic
Contemporary (1990-present)
Holidays & Celebrations
U.S. Stamps
Link to Original Record
Record ID
npm_2006.2023.379