Wild Orchids Forever 1st Class Postage Stamps
Release date of February 21, 2020
OUT OF PRINT, LIMITED STOCK
The Postal Service celebrates the exotic beauty of orchids with 10 new stamps in booklets of 20 and coils of 3,000 and 10,000. Each stamp features a photograph of one of nine species that grow wild in the United States: Cypripedium californicum, Hexalectris spicata, Cypripedium reginae, Spiranthes odorata, Triphora trianthophoros, Platanthera grandiflora, Cyrtopodium polyphyllum, Calopogon tuberosus and Platanthera leucophaea.
Orchids also have common names, with some plants having several different names in popular use.
Art director Ethel Kessler designed the stamps with existing photographs by Jim Fowler.
The Wild Orchids stamps are being issued as Forever® stamps. These Forever stamps will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail® one-ounce rate.
Made in the USA
Postage stamps are not eligible for discounts through sales or coupon codes.
Artwork Guidelines
- Preferred File Formats: .jpg, .jpeg, .png
- Preferred Image Size: 2000 x 2000 pixels
- Artwork must be a black and white image.
- Image must be without shading or contouring.
- Text is often illegible in wax impressions, please consider the image without text, or make the text as large as possible (7pt minimum) and select a larger stamp.
- We are unable to work from photographs or scanned images.
- Provide us with the image as you would like it to appear in the final wax impression.
- Please note, the image will be reversed when engraved the seal face in order to create a positive impression in the sealing wax. Please send us the positive version of your artwork.
- Please provide your final, finished image.
While we have our talents, designing artwork is best left to actual designers and artists. If you need some help, please take a look on sites such as fiver.com, where you can hire an artist for $5 per project.
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To supply your own font, simply choose "custom font" from the menu and use the provided file upload option to send us the font file from your computer library.
If you need to find a font file, there are many great sites from which you can download.
To submit your own font, we can use font files extensions: .OTF, .TTF, & .FNT
- PC users may mostly likely find their fonts in \Windows\Fonts\Winnt\Fonts.
- Mac users can find their font files in System:Fonts, or .../Library/Fonts