| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| Date of Issue | June 5, 2013 |
| Year | 2013 |
| Quantity | 60,000,000 |
| Denomination |
First-Class Forever Commemorative
|
| Denomination Value | $0.46 | Color | 7575 (Brown), 7 (Warm Gray), 7497 (Gray), Black |
| 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 |
| Condition | Name | Avg Value |
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Commemorate an iconic country music artist and the First Day of Issue of the Johnny Cash Forever® stamp with an official ceremony program and cover.
The full-color, custom-designed program features the First Day Ceremony agenda and participants on one side, with narrative about Cash and the stamp design on the reverse.
The program is tucked inside a 7 1/2 x 7 1/2-inch envelope that bears an affixed Johnny Cash stamp and the official First Day of Issue cancellation, along with a United States Postal Service logo and the type “First Day of Issue Ceremony.”
Made in the USA.
SKUs featured on this page: 579430
Stamp and music enthusiasts alike will love this 16 x 22-inch hand-screened collectible Johnny Cash poster. Featuring two iconic photographs of “the Man in Black,” the poster also marks the date and location of stamp issuance in bold type.
Includes free First Day Cover
Limited quantity available!
Made in the USA.
SKUs featured on this page: 579425
A tribute to the music visionary known to many as “the Man in Black,” this handsome collectible package includes a sheet of 16 Johnny Cash Forever® stamps and a #6 3/4 envelope bearing an affixed Johnny Cash stamp and a First Day of Issue color postmark.
The square stamp features a striking image of Cash shot by Frank Bez during the photo session for Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash (1963). Designed to suggest a vinyl disc sliding from its cover, the color postmark integrates a subtle classical guitar detail and includes the official date and location of the stamp issuance.
Made in the USA.
SKUs featured on this page: 579410
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.