U.S. #5777
2023 Brownish Tulip with White Base (Booklet)
Tulip Blossoms
- Part of the Tulip Blossoms set heralding the arrival of spring and celebrating America’s love of tulips
- This stamp design was also issued in coils of 3,000 and coils of 10,000
Stamp Category: Definitive
Value: 63¢, First Class Mail (Forever)
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U.S. #5777
2023 Brownish Tulip with White Base (Booklet)
Tulip Blossoms
- Part of the Tulip Blossoms set heralding the arrival of spring and celebrating America’s love of tulips
- This stamp design was also issued in coils of 3,000 and coils of 10,000
Stamp Category: Definitive
Value: 63¢, First Class Mail (Forever)
First Day of Issue: April 5, 2023
First Day City: Woodburn, Oregon
Quantity Issued: 500,000,000 stamps
Printed by: Banknote Corporation of America
Printing Method: Offset
Format: Double-sided booklet of 20
Tagging: Phosphor tagged paper, block
First Day City: The First Day of Issue Ceremony was held in Woodburn, Oregon, at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival, an annual event celebrating tulips and other elements of Dutch culture (such as wooden shoes).
About the Tulip Blossoms set: According to the USPS, the set was issued to celebrate spring and the popularity of tulips across America. Each of the 10 stamp designs pictures a close-up of a tulip from photographs by Denise Ippolito. The flowers fill nearly the entire frame of each stamp.
History the stamp represents: The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival is held every April in the Skagit Valley of Washington State. The valley takes up 350 acres and includes tulip fields spanning all the way from La Conner to Mount Vernon.
The tradition of growing tulip bulbs in Washington State began in 1883 with George Gibbs. Gibbs lived on Orcas Island and started growing tulips with five dollars’ worth of bulbs. A few years later, he found they had multiplied and became interested in cultivating more in the Puget Sound region. He shipped his bulbs to Holland growers who were impressed and visited him to see how tulips grew outside their country. In 1905, the US Department of Agriculture sent Gibbs 15,000 bulbs from Holland to grow. The experiment was a huge success, and, over the years, there were enough flowers to host the first Bellingham Tulip Festival in 1920. The original festival was discontinued in 1930 after a period of heavy losses. It was around this time that tulip growers moved to the Skagit Valley.
Today, the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival is known as Washington’s largest tulip festival. Visitors come from all 50 states and over 85 foreign countries. In fact, in one year, attendance was reported at over one million during the month-long event.
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