# 3025-29 - 1996 32c Winter Garden Flowers
US #3025-29
1996 Winter Garden Flowers
- Five designs showing flowers that bloom in winter
- Last stamps in Garden Flower series
Category of Stamp: Commemorative
Set: Garden Flowers
Value: 32¢, First-Class mail rate
First Day of Issue: January 19, 1996
First Day City: Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
Quantity Issued: 160,000,000
Printed by: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Lithographed and Engraved
Format: Booklets of 20 (4 panes of 5) from offset printing plate of 360 (20 across, 18 down) and intaglio sleeves of 720 (20 across, 36 down)
Perforations: 10.9
Reason the stamp was issued: This was the last booklet in a series picturing garden flowers in different seasons. It fulfilled the First-Class postage rate.
About the stamp design: These stamps, like the others in this series, were created as a continuous se-tenant, so they look to be growing in the same garden. The flowers were chosen because they bloom in the winter somewhere in the US. They include: the anemone, crocus, pansy, snowdrop, and winter aconite.
All the stamps in this series were designed by Ned Seidler, a nature artist who had worked for National Geographic magazine for 18 years. He created a single watercolor painting of the garden scene, which was used for the five-stamp set.
Special design details: Because all of the plant species shown on the stamps grow close to the ground, the dirt can be seen on the bottom of the stamps. The other stamps in the series don’t have the dirt showing.
About the printing process: Most of the stamps’ images were printed using offset lithography. The black lettering was done with intaglio engraving.
First Day City: The stamps were dedicated at a ceremony at the Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. These gardens contain world-renown horticultural displays.
About the Garden Flower Series:
This series was borne out of the 1992 Wildflowers issue. Initially, that project had begun when the USPS asked an artist to produce color sketches of a group of garden flowers. Instead, the artist gave the USPS illustrations of wildflowers. The USPS liked them so much, they decided to create a 50-stamp pane, showing wildflowers that can be found in each state.
US #3025-29
1996 Winter Garden Flowers
- Five designs showing flowers that bloom in winter
- Last stamps in Garden Flower series
Category of Stamp: Commemorative
Set: Garden Flowers
Value: 32¢, First-Class mail rate
First Day of Issue: January 19, 1996
First Day City: Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
Quantity Issued: 160,000,000
Printed by: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Lithographed and Engraved
Format: Booklets of 20 (4 panes of 5) from offset printing plate of 360 (20 across, 18 down) and intaglio sleeves of 720 (20 across, 36 down)
Perforations: 10.9
Reason the stamp was issued: This was the last booklet in a series picturing garden flowers in different seasons. It fulfilled the First-Class postage rate.
About the stamp design: These stamps, like the others in this series, were created as a continuous se-tenant, so they look to be growing in the same garden. The flowers were chosen because they bloom in the winter somewhere in the US. They include: the anemone, crocus, pansy, snowdrop, and winter aconite.
All the stamps in this series were designed by Ned Seidler, a nature artist who had worked for National Geographic magazine for 18 years. He created a single watercolor painting of the garden scene, which was used for the five-stamp set.
Special design details: Because all of the plant species shown on the stamps grow close to the ground, the dirt can be seen on the bottom of the stamps. The other stamps in the series don’t have the dirt showing.
About the printing process: Most of the stamps’ images were printed using offset lithography. The black lettering was done with intaglio engraving.
First Day City: The stamps were dedicated at a ceremony at the Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. These gardens contain world-renown horticultural displays.
About the Garden Flower Series:
This series was borne out of the 1992 Wildflowers issue. Initially, that project had begun when the USPS asked an artist to produce color sketches of a group of garden flowers. Instead, the artist gave the USPS illustrations of wildflowers. The USPS liked them so much, they decided to create a 50-stamp pane, showing wildflowers that can be found in each state.