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2014 USPS First-Class Forever Stamp - The Star Spangled Banner Booklet $59.99 – $2,595.00
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2021 USPS Day of the Dead Forever Stamps

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With the release of these four new stamps, the Post 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.

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Weight

0.26 lbs

Dimensions

3.94 * 0.08 * 1.57 in

Type

5 Booklets=100pcs

Quantity

5 Booklets/100 Pcs, 15 Booklets/300 Pcs, 25 Booklets/500 Pcs, 50 Booklets/1000 Pcs, 250 Booklets/5000 Pcs

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