2024 First-Class Forever Stamp,Pinback Buttons: Hello!
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US #5920
2024 Hello! – Pinback Buttons
• One of 10 stamps commemorating popular and colorful pinback buttons
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Pinback Buttons
Value: 73¢ First Class Mail Rate (Forever)
First Day of Issue: August 15, 2024
First Day City: Hartford, Connecticut
Quantity Issued: 35,000,000
Printed by: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.
Printing Method: Offset, Flexographic
Format: Panes of 20
Tagging: Nonphosphored Type III, Spot Tag
Why the stamp was issued: To celebrate the way pinback buttons have been used for decades to send messages, decorate clothing, raise awareness, and more.
About the stamp design: Pictures a typographic design by artist Tré Seals featuring the word “Hello!”
Special design details: The round shape of the stamp, along with its shadowing and reflection effects, gives it the illusion of being three-dimensional.
First Day City: The First Day of Issue Ceremony was held at the Great American Stamp Show in Hartford, Connecticut.
About the Pinback Buttons set: Includes 10 stamps with typographic designs by 10 different artists in their own styles, each with a single word as the main element of the design. Artists include: Don Clark (Smile), Tré Seals (Hello!), Jay Fletcher (Peace), Juan Carlos Pagan (Love), Gia Graham (Fun), Jeff Rogers (Sweet), Ryan Feerer (Yes!), Lisa Congdon (Cheers!), DKNG Studios (Kudos!), and Gina Triplett (Happy).
History the stamp represents: Saying “Hello” as a greeting is a relatively recent practice that arose with the invention of the telephone. Had Alexander Graham Bell gotten his way, we would all say “Ahoy” instead.
“Hello” first appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1827. At the time, it was not used as a greeting. It was used to attract attention or show surprise. “Hello” came from the Old High German halâ, used to call a ferryman. It also relates to the French holà meaning “whoa there.” Some have suggested it is a contraction of the Old English phrase hál béo pu, “whole be thou,” which was a sentiment of good health.
When Alexander Graham Bell patented the first telephone in 1876, he suggested people say “Ahoy.” Based on the Dutch hoi, Ahoy has been in use since the 1700s, mostly at sea to attract attention. Thomas Edison, however, suggested “hello” as the greeting. When the country’s first phone books were distributed in New Haven, Connecticut, they included instructions. Among these was the tip to begin conversations with a “firm and cheery ‘hulloa.’” Eventually, “hello” caught on.
On November 21, 1973, the first-ever World Hello Day was held. Observed in 180 countries, it’s a day to greet at least 10 other people. The goal has always been to show the importance of communication instead of force in preserving peace.
US #5920
2024 Hello! – Pinback Buttons
• One of 10 stamps commemorating popular and colorful pinback buttons
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Pinback Buttons
Value: 73¢ First Class Mail Rate (Forever)
First Day of Issue: August 15, 2024
First Day City: Hartford, Connecticut
Quantity Issued: 35,000,000
Printed by: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.
Printing Method: Offset, Flexographic
Format: Panes of 20
Tagging: Nonphosphored Type III, Spot Tag
Why the stamp was issued: To celebrate the way pinback buttons have been used for decades to send messages, decorate clothing, raise awareness, and more.
About the stamp design: Pictures a typographic design by artist Tré Seals featuring the word “Hello!”
Special design details: The round shape of the stamp, along with its shadowing and reflection effects, gives it the illusion of being three-dimensional.
First Day City: The First Day of Issue Ceremony was held at the Great American Stamp Show in Hartford, Connecticut.
About the Pinback Buttons set: Includes 10 stamps with typographic designs by 10 different artists in their own styles, each with a single word as the main element of the design. Artists include: Don Clark (Smile), Tré Seals (Hello!), Jay Fletcher (Peace), Juan Carlos Pagan (Love), Gia Graham (Fun), Jeff Rogers (Sweet), Ryan Feerer (Yes!), Lisa Congdon (Cheers!), DKNG Studios (Kudos!), and Gina Triplett (Happy).
History the stamp represents: Saying “Hello” as a greeting is a relatively recent practice that arose with the invention of the telephone. Had Alexander Graham Bell gotten his way, we would all say “Ahoy” instead.
“Hello” first appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1827. At the time, it was not used as a greeting. It was used to attract attention or show surprise. “Hello” came from the Old High German halâ, used to call a ferryman. It also relates to the French holà meaning “whoa there.” Some have suggested it is a contraction of the Old English phrase hál béo pu, “whole be thou,” which was a sentiment of good health.
When Alexander Graham Bell patented the first telephone in 1876, he suggested people say “Ahoy.” Based on the Dutch hoi, Ahoy has been in use since the 1700s, mostly at sea to attract attention. Thomas Edison, however, suggested “hello” as the greeting. When the country’s first phone books were distributed in New Haven, Connecticut, they included instructions. Among these was the tip to begin conversations with a “firm and cheery ‘hulloa.’” Eventually, “hello” caught on.
On November 21, 1973, the first-ever World Hello Day was held. Observed in 180 countries, it’s a day to greet at least 10 other people. The goal has always been to show the importance of communication instead of force in preserving peace.