Red, White, and Blue - Flag #3
Quantity 37,500,000
First-Class Mail Forever
Denomination Value $0.49
Perforation or Dimension 0.87 x 0.98 in./22.09 x 24.89 mm
Series Red, White, and Blue
Issue Location San Francisco, CA 94188
Postal Administration United States
Coil of 10,000 (4 Designs)
Quantity Produced - 15,000
Original Purchase Price: $4,900.00
Printer: CCL Label, Inc.
Printed at: Clinton, SC
Printing Process: Gravure
Gum Type: Pressure-sensitive adhesive
Paper: Nonphosphored, Type III; Phosphor Tagged Overall
Layout Number: "C" followed by 11 (2) single digits
Layout Number Frequency: Plate numbers every 32nd stamp below stamp image • Coil Back Number Frequency every 10th stamp
First-day Cover Set of 4
Digital Color Postmark Set of 4
About Stamp Series
On April 25, 2014, in San Francisco, CA, the U.S. Postal Service® will issue the Red, White, and Blue (Forever® priced at 49 cents) definitive stamps, in four designs, in pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) coils of 10,000. The stamps will go on sale nationwide April 25, 2014.
Each of the four stamps features a modern interpretation of a flying flag, complete with six red and white wavy stripes and a handful of five-pointed stars.
Celebrate America with the Red, White and Blue issuance. The designs were inspired by 20th-century American ephemera, such as pins and flags.
Today, the American flag remains a powerful symbol. "In those broad stripes and bright stars, we see the arc of the American story," President Barack Obama said in his 2013 Flag Day proclamation, "from a handful of colonies to 50 States, united and free."
Designed for business use, the Red, White and Blue Forever® stamps are being issued in self-adhesive large coils of 10,000. These Forever stamps will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail® one-ounce rate.
Art director Ethel Kessler designed the stamps.
Art Director: Ethel Kessler, Bethesda, MD.
Designer: Ethel Kessler, Bethesda, MD.
Typographer: Greg Berger, Manassas, VA.
Engraver: WRE.
Modeler: CCL Label, Inc..
USPS Postal Bulletin 22387. Copyright: USPS.