Name: Day of the Dead
SKU: 481404
Price: 13.60 USD
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Day of the Dead Stamps

Forever 68¢ | Multiple Stamp Designs
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Issue Date: 9/30/2021

With the release of these four new stamps, the U.S. Postal Service celebrates Day of the Dead, an increasingly popular holiday in the United States.

Each of the pane’s five identical rows includes four colorful stamps featuring several iconic elements of a traditional Day of the Dead ofrenda, or offering.

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With the release of these four new stamps, the U.S. Postal Service celebrates Day of the Dead, an increasingly popular holiday in the United States.

Each of the pane’s five identical rows includes four colorful stamps featuring several iconic elements of a traditional Day of the Dead ofrenda, or offering. Stylized, decorated “sugar skulls” are personalized as four family members, one per stamp: a child with a hair bow, a father sporting a hat and mustache, a mother with curled hair, and another child. The lit candles flanking each sugar skull are beacons to guide deceased loved ones on their annual return journey to the land of the living. Dotting each stamp and adorning their shared vertical borders are marigolds (cempazuchitles), the most popular Day of the Dead flower. The vibrant colors of the flowers and other embellishments, along with the white of the sugar skulls, stand out brightly from the stamps’ black background.

With roots in pre-Columbian Latin America, Dia de los Muertos resulted from the meeting of Indigenous traditions and practices introduced by the Catholic missionaries who arrived with the Spanish colonizers in the late 1500s. The modern version of the holiday rose out of the activism of the 1970s, when Chicano artists in California saw it as a way to build pride in Mexican culture.

Today hundreds of thousands of Americans from all walks of life flock to celebrations hosted each November by museums, galleries, and community centers. They are drawn by the exuberant processions, skeleton costumes and face painting, music, dancing, special food, and arts-and-crafts workshops, and by the ofrendas honoring not only departed family members but also heroes and celebrities.

It is no wonder that Day of the Dead, with all its exuberant color, life-affirming joy, and appeal for the whole family, is fast becoming a popular American holiday.

Luis Fitch designed and illustrated the stamps. Antonio Alcalá was the art director.

The Day of the Dead stamps are being issued as Forever® stamps. These Forever stamps will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail® one-ounce rate.

Issue:	Day of the Dead Stamps
Item Number:	481400
Denomination &	First-Class Mail Forever
Type of Issue:
Format:	Pane of 20 (4 designs)
Series:	N/A
Issue Date & City:	September 30, 2021, El Paso, TX 79910
Art Director:	Antonio Alcalá, Alexandria, VA
Designer:	Luis Fitch, Minneapolis, MN
Artist:	Luis Fitch, Minneapolis, MN
Modeler:	Sandra Lane/Michelle Finn
Manufacturing Process:	Offset
Printer:	Banknote Corporation of America
Press Type:	Alprinta
Stamps per Pane:	20
Print Quantity:	35,000,000 stamps
Paper Type:	Phosphor, Overall
Adhesive Type:	Pressure-sensitive
Colors:	PMS 185 C, PMS 191 C, PMS 3262 C, PMS 376 C, PMS 021 C, PMS Purple C, PMS 213 C, PMS Yellow C, PMS Black 6 C
Stamp Orientation:	Horizontal
Image Area (w x h):	1.05 x 0.77 in./ 26.67 x 19.558 mm
Overall Size (w x h):	1.19 x 0.91 in./30.226 x 23.114 mm
Full Pane Size (w x h):	5.76 x 5.55 in./146.304 x 140.97 mm
Press Sheets Size (w x h):	23.04 x 11.1 in./585.216 x 281.94 mm
Plate Size:	320 stamps per revolution
Plate Number:	“B” followed by nine (9) single digits in four corners
Marginal Markings:
Front:	Plate number in four corners
Back:	©2020 USPS • USPS logo • 2 barcodes (481400) • Plate position diagram (8) • Promotional text

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