US #5928
2024 Cheers! – 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.
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US #5928
2024 Cheers! – 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 Lisa Congdon featuring the word “Cheers!”
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: Clinking our glasses together and saying “Cheers” has become second nature. The reasons behind these traditions are cloaked in legend and lore.
Our use of cheers is taken from the old French word chiere, which means face or head. By the 1700s, it mean gladness. The first recorded instance of cheers being used during a toast occurred in 1919.
Other toasting traditions are much older. The Ancient Greeks poured out some of their wine as offerings to the gods for good health. Today, this tradition has evolved into lifting a glass upward, toward the heavens. In the Middle Ages, it became common practice to clink glasses together before drinking. Reportedly, this was done so that all the drinks would overflow into each other, to discourage poisoning attempts. Additionally, the clinking of the glasses and loud cheers were believed to ward off evil spirits. Some also suggest that by clinking the glasses, all their senses (taste, smell, sight, and sound) become engaged in the experience.
The reason we call it a toast is because in the 1500s, it was common to add toast to drinks. It could absorb acidity or improve the flavor of bad wine.
Many countries say “to your health,” but also have some more unorthodox cheers. For instance, in Poland they say “man is not a camel, he must drink.”
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