2024 First-Class Forever Stamp,Carnival Nights: Fireworks & Purple Gondola Ride, Photograph by Anthony Totah
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US #5864
2024 Gondola Wheel and Wave Swinger – Carnival Nights
• One of 10 Carnival Nights stamps celebrating the bright, colorful lights and fun rides at America’s beloved carnivals
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Carnival Nights
Value: 68¢ First Class Mail Rate (Forever)
First Day of Issue: June 6, 2024
First Day City: Biloxi, Mississippi
Quantity Issued: 18,000,000
Printed by: Banknote Corporation of America
Printing Method: Offset
Format: Panes of 20
Tagging: Phosphor, Block Tag
Why the stamp was issued: To commemorate America’s enjoyment of summer carnivals and their iconic lights and amusement rides.
About the stamp design: Pictures a photograph of a Gondola Wheel and Wave Swinger at night by Anthony Totah.
First Day City: The First Day of Issue Ceremony was held at the South Mississippi Summer Fair in Biloxi, Mississippi.
About the Carnival Nights set: Includes 10 stamps picturing different photographs of carnival rides lit up in a rainbow of colors.
History the stamp represents: The idea of a traveling carnival has been popular in many books, television shows, and movies over the years. It provides opportunities for young love interests to get together or children to go on a mysterious, often terrifying, adventure. The concept of running away to join the carnival has also seen its fair share of use.
One of the most well-known carnival stories is the novel Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) by Ray Bradbury. It tells the tale of two 13-year-old boys (Will and Jim) and their encounter with a spooky traveling carnival that arrives much later in the season than expected (late October). The boys face off against several evil carnies with the help of Will’s father, Charles. The carnies take several townspeople captive in the meantime, in some cases turning them back into children by tricking them onto a magic carousel. Eventually, Charles, Will, and Jim triumph over the carnies and drive them out of town.
Something Wicked This Way Comes has become a classic example of the romanticization of carnivals in entertainment. That makes it all the more fun to visit a traveling carnival in real life – especially at night. After all, you never know what mysteries you might uncover under the carnival lights!
US #5864
2024 Gondola Wheel and Wave Swinger – Carnival Nights
• One of 10 Carnival Nights stamps celebrating the bright, colorful lights and fun rides at America’s beloved carnivals
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Carnival Nights
Value: 68¢ First Class Mail Rate (Forever)
First Day of Issue: June 6, 2024
First Day City: Biloxi, Mississippi
Quantity Issued: 18,000,000
Printed by: Banknote Corporation of America
Printing Method: Offset
Format: Panes of 20
Tagging: Phosphor, Block Tag
Why the stamp was issued: To commemorate America’s enjoyment of summer carnivals and their iconic lights and amusement rides.
About the stamp design: Pictures a photograph of a Gondola Wheel and Wave Swinger at night by Anthony Totah.
First Day City: The First Day of Issue Ceremony was held at the South Mississippi Summer Fair in Biloxi, Mississippi.
About the Carnival Nights set: Includes 10 stamps picturing different photographs of carnival rides lit up in a rainbow of colors.
History the stamp represents: The idea of a traveling carnival has been popular in many books, television shows, and movies over the years. It provides opportunities for young love interests to get together or children to go on a mysterious, often terrifying, adventure. The concept of running away to join the carnival has also seen its fair share of use.
One of the most well-known carnival stories is the novel Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) by Ray Bradbury. It tells the tale of two 13-year-old boys (Will and Jim) and their encounter with a spooky traveling carnival that arrives much later in the season than expected (late October). The boys face off against several evil carnies with the help of Will’s father, Charles. The carnies take several townspeople captive in the meantime, in some cases turning them back into children by tricking them onto a magic carousel. Eventually, Charles, Will, and Jim triumph over the carnies and drive them out of town.
Something Wicked This Way Comes has become a classic example of the romanticization of carnivals in entertainment. That makes it all the more fun to visit a traveling carnival in real life – especially at night. After all, you never know what mysteries you might uncover under the carnival lights!