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Johnny Cash

Music Icons

Stamp Info

Name Value
Date of Issue June 5, 2013
Year 2013
Quantity 60,000,000
Denomination
First-Class Forever Commemorative
Denomination Value $0.46
Perforation or Dimension 1.225 x 1.225 in./31.12 x 31.12 mm
Series Music Icons
Series Time Span 2013 - 2018
Issue Location Nashville, TN 37230
Postal Administration United States

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Pane of 16 (1 Design)

Quantity Produced - 3,750,000
Original Purchase Price: $7.36
SKU: 579400
Dimension: 7.00 x 7.00 in./177.80 x 177.80 mm
Printer: Avery Dennison (AVR)
Printed at: AVR, Clinton, SC
Printing Process: Gravure
Gum Type: Pressure-sensitive
Paper: Prephosphored, Type II, Block Tagged
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Press Sheet With Die Cuts

Quantity Produced - 2,500
Original Purchase Price: $58.88
SKU: 579406
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Press Sheet Without Die Cuts

Quantity Produced - 2,500
Original Purchase Price: $58.88
SKU: 579408
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First-day Cover (full Pane)

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Original Purchase Price: $9.86
SKU: 579418
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Original Purchase Price: $0.90
SKU: 579416
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First-day Cancelled (full Pane)

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Original Purchase Price: $9.86
SKU: 579419
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Digital Color Postmark

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SKU: 579421
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Ceremony Program

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SKU: 579430
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SKU: 579425
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SKU: 579424
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SKU: 579410
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About Stamp

On June 5, 2013, in Nashville, Tennessee, at the Grand Ole Opry Ryman Auditorium, the Postal Service™ will issue a Johnny Cash (Forever® priced at 46 cents) com­memorative First-Class mail® stamp in one design in a pres­sure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) pane of 16 stamps. The stamp will go on sale nationwide June 5, 2013.

Johnny Cash (1932–2003) is best remembered internationally as a country music artist, but we feel his influence just about everywhere—from rock and folk to blues and gospel. His stamp is being issued this year as part of the exciting new Music Icons stamp series.

The stamp features a photograph taken by Frank Bez during the photo session for Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash (1963). In the photo, Cash stares out at the viewer through a veil of shadow, his brooding expression fitting for an artist known to so many people simply as “the Man in Black.” The stamp sheet evokes the appearance of a vintage 45 rpm record sleeve. One side of the sheet includes the stamps and the image of a sliver of a record seeming to peek out the top of the sleeve. A larger version of the photograph featured on the stamp and the logo for the Music Icons series appear on the reverse side.

Cash found inspiration for his music in the stories of outlaws and laborers, and in his own life experience. A child of the Depression, he grew up in rural Arkansas, and the culture of that time and place—especially the Bible and gospel and country music—remained with him all his life. Themes of redemption, loneliness, love, loss, and death colored his music with a gritty realism that differed markedly from other socially conscious popular music. “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die,” he sings famously in “Folsom Prison Blues.”

By the 1960s, Cash had become one of the top names in country music, with a string of hits that included “Cry, Cry, Cry,” “I Walk the Line,” and the Grammy award-winning “A Boy Named Sue.” Though his popularity waned in the 1970s and 1980s, Cash made a remarkable resurgence in the 1990s, culminating in several more Grammy awards. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.

Greg Breeding served as art director and designer for the stamp.

The Johnny Cash stamp is being issued as a Forever® stamp.

Colors

7575 (Brown), 7 (Warm Gray), 7497 (Gray), Black

Creators

Designer: Greg Breeding, Charlottesville, VA.
Art Director: Greg Breeding, Charlottesville, VA.
Typographer: Greg Breeding, Charlottesville, VA.
Existing Photo: Frank Bez.
Engraver: WRE.
Modeler: Avery Dennison, Designed and Engineered Solutions.

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Reference

USPS Postal Bulletin 22362. Copyright: USPS.

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