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29c Year of the Boar single

Object Details

Description
The Postal Service celebrated the Lunar New Year, Year of the Boar, with issuance of a 29-cent commemorative stamp on December 30, 1994, in Sacramento, California. The stamp features a boar, the last animal in the series of twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac. Chinese characters on the bottom left of the stamp read in English, "Year of the Boar," and the "Happy New Year!" greeting appears in the upper right corner.
Designed by Clarence Lee of Honolulu, Hawaii, the stamps were printed in the photogravure process by Stamp Venturers, Inc., and issued in sheets of twenty.
Reference:
Postal Bulletin (December 8, 1994).
mint
11.2 horizontal perforations x 11.1 vertical perforations
Data Source
National Postal Museum
Date
December 30, 1994
Credit line
Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
Medium
paper; ink (multicolored); adhesive / photogravure
Type
Postage Stamps

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