2024 5c Red Tulips (from pane)
# 5900 PB - 2024 5c Red Tulips (from pane)
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US #5900
2024 5¢ Red Tulips (From Pane) – Low-Denomination Flowers Series
• Part of the first issue of the Low-Denomination Flowers Series
Stamp Category: Definitive
Series: Low-Denomination Flowers
Value: 5¢
First Day of Issue: July 18, 2024
First Day City: Berkeley, California
Quantity Issued: 30,000,000
Printed by: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.
Printing Method: Offset, Microprint
Format: Panes of 20
Perforations: Serpentine Die Cut, 11 ¼ x 11
Tagging: Nonphosphored Type III
Why the stamp was issued: To cover 5¢ postage and continue the popular tradition of flowers on stamps.
About the stamp design: Pictures a photograph of red tulips on a yellow-toned cream background by Harold Davis.
Special design details: In addition to photographing the flowers, Harold Davis also grew these red tulips in his backyard in Berkeley, California.
First Day City: The stamps were issued in Berkeley, California, without an official USPS First Day of Issue Ceremony.
About the Low-Denomination Flowers Series: The series began in 2024 with five stamp designs in the following denominations: 1¢, 2¢, 3¢, 5¢, and 10¢. Each 2024 stamp pictures a different flower grown and photographed by Harold Davis of Berkeley California.
History the stamp represents: Did you know tulips originated in Central Asia, not the Netherlands? The legend behind their creation is equally little-known. It is the story of star-crossed lovers, Farhad and Shirin of Persia…
Farhad was a stone cutter who fell in love with Princess Shirin. Shirin heard of his love, but was not interested in someone of lower class. Farhad did not give up and began playing music dedicated to the princess throughout the countryside. His story spread and the villagers decided to help him win Shirin’s heart.
Princess Shirin was led into the forest, where she heard Farhad’s music for the first time and fell in love with him. However, when the shah (Shirin’s father) heard of this, he would not allow his daughter to be with someone of such low social status. He told Shirin to ask Farhad to dig a canal measuring six lances wide, three lances deep, and 40 miels long. If he completed the task, the two could be together. Farhad greed and spent years digging. When his task was nearly done, the shah tricked him by sending word that Princess Shirin was dead. In his grief, Farhad took his own life. Shirin heard of this and went to the mountains to see if it was true. Upon finding Farhad, she took her own life, too. It is said the first tulips sprouted from the lovers’ spilled blood. The flowers ensured their love would live on forever.
US #5900
2024 5¢ Red Tulips (From Pane) – Low-Denomination Flowers Series
• Part of the first issue of the Low-Denomination Flowers Series
Stamp Category: Definitive
Series: Low-Denomination Flowers
Value: 5¢
First Day of Issue: July 18, 2024
First Day City: Berkeley, California
Quantity Issued: 30,000,000
Printed by: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.
Printing Method: Offset, Microprint
Format: Panes of 20
Perforations: Serpentine Die Cut, 11 ¼ x 11
Tagging: Nonphosphored Type III
Why the stamp was issued: To cover 5¢ postage and continue the popular tradition of flowers on stamps.
About the stamp design: Pictures a photograph of red tulips on a yellow-toned cream background by Harold Davis.
Special design details: In addition to photographing the flowers, Harold Davis also grew these red tulips in his backyard in Berkeley, California.
First Day City: The stamps were issued in Berkeley, California, without an official USPS First Day of Issue Ceremony.
About the Low-Denomination Flowers Series: The series began in 2024 with five stamp designs in the following denominations: 1¢, 2¢, 3¢, 5¢, and 10¢. Each 2024 stamp pictures a different flower grown and photographed by Harold Davis of Berkeley California.
History the stamp represents: Did you know tulips originated in Central Asia, not the Netherlands? The legend behind their creation is equally little-known. It is the story of star-crossed lovers, Farhad and Shirin of Persia…
Farhad was a stone cutter who fell in love with Princess Shirin. Shirin heard of his love, but was not interested in someone of lower class. Farhad did not give up and began playing music dedicated to the princess throughout the countryside. His story spread and the villagers decided to help him win Shirin’s heart.
Princess Shirin was led into the forest, where she heard Farhad’s music for the first time and fell in love with him. However, when the shah (Shirin’s father) heard of this, he would not allow his daughter to be with someone of such low social status. He told Shirin to ask Farhad to dig a canal measuring six lances wide, three lances deep, and 40 miels long. If he completed the task, the two could be together. Farhad greed and spent years digging. When his task was nearly done, the shah tricked him by sending word that Princess Shirin was dead. In his grief, Farhad took his own life. Shirin heard of this and went to the mountains to see if it was true. Upon finding Farhad, she took her own life, too. It is said the first tulips sprouted from the lovers’ spilled blood. The flowers ensured their love would live on forever.