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Sealed With Love

Love

Stamp Info

Name Value
Date of Issue January 30, 2013
Year 2013
Quantity 311,000,000
Denomination
First-Class Mail Forever
Denomination Value $0.46
Perforation or Dimension 1.19 x 0.91 in./30.23 x 23.11 mm
Series Love
Series Time Span 1999 - 2018
Issue Location Loveland, CO 80538 (No Ceremony)
Postal Administration United States

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Layouts

Pane of 20 (1 Design)

Quantity Produced - 15,550,000
Original Purchase Price: $9.20
SKU: 578700
Dimension: 5.75 x 5.50 in./146.05 x 139.70 mm
Printer: Avery Dennison (AVR)
Printed at: AVR, Clinton, SC
Printing Process: Gravure
Gum Type: Pressure-sensitive
Paper: Prephosphored, Type II
Layout Number: “V” followed by five (5) single digits
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Press Sheet With Die Cuts

Quantity Produced - 2,500
Original Purchase Price: $55.20
SKU: 578706
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Press Sheet Without Die Cuts

Quantity Produced - 2,500
Original Purchase Price: $55.20
SKU: 578708
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First-day Cover

Quantity Produced - Unknown
Original Purchase Price: $0.90
SKU: 578716
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Digital Color Postmark

Quantity Produced - Unknown
Original Purchase Price: $1.61
SKU: 578721
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Ceremony Program

Quantity Produced - Unknown
Original Purchase Price: $6.95
SKU: 578730
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Keepsake (pane & Digital Color Postmark Set)

Quantity Produced - Unknown
Original Purchase Price: $10.95
SKU: 578710
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Notecards Set of 8

Quantity Produced - Unknown
Original Purchase Price: $13.95
SKU: 578723
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Stamp Deck Card

Quantity Produced - Unknown
Original Purchase Price: $0.95
SKU: 578731
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Stamp Deck Card W/digital Color Postmark

Quantity Produced - Unknown
Original Purchase Price: $1.96
SKU: 578732
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About Stamp

On January 30, 2013, in Loveland, Colorado, the Postal Service™ will issue a Sealed With Love First-Class Mail® stamp (Forever® priced at 46 cents) in one design in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) pane of 20 stamps. The stamp will go on sale nationwide January 30, 2013.

Evoking the romance of a bygone era, the Sealed with Love stamp expresses the joy and beauty of handwritten love letters. The stamp art depicts an envelope fastened with an elegant wax seal. The seal, in shades of red, is a small heart enclosed inside a larger heart, both surrounded by a graceful filigree circle. The exquisite delicacy of the stamp art invites us to send our own love letters, a romantic gesture that never goes out of style.

The Victorians were ardent letter writers and believed that there was a proper way to compose letters, particularly love letters. Etiquette manuals aided Victorian romantics in penning appropriate letters to their beloveds. While these books reflected the Victorian obsession with propriety, the senders still wished to make their feelings known, and there was a precise etiquette for using sealing wax. Although today red is the color most associated with passion, in the mid-1800s, blue was the color of love, with wax of various shades denoting the degree of emotion felt by the sender.

Graphic designer Louise Fili worked with art director Derry Noyes on this stamp. Jessica Hische was the illustrator.

The Sealed with Love stamp is being issued as a Forever® stamp.

Colors

877 (Silver), 485 (Lt. Red), 1807 (Dk. Red), Black, 4 (Cool Gray)

Creators

Designer: Louise Fili, New York, NY.
Art Director: Derry Noyes, Washington, DC.
Typographer: Louise Fili, New York, NY.
Illustrator: Jessica Hische.
Engraver: WRE.
Modeler: Avery Dennison, Designed and Engineered Solutions.

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Reference

USPS Postal Bulletin 22355. Copyright: USPS.

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