| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| Date of Issue | April 21, 2018 |
| Year | 2018 |
| Quantity | 400,000,000 |
| Denomination |
First-Class Mail Forever
|
| Denomination Value | $0.50 | Color | Black, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow |
| Perforation or Dimension | 0.87 x 0.98 in./22.10 x 24.89 mm |
| Issue Location | Shreveport LA 71102 |
| Postal Administration | United States |
| Condition | Name | Avg Value |
|---|
Celebrate the beauty of a favorite flower with this new Peace Rose First Day Cover. The #6 ¾ envelope bears an affixed Forever® stamp cancelled with an official First Day of Issue postmark.
This closeup of the popular Peace rose blossom highlights the flower’s coloring, with creamy yellow petals touched at the edges with pink. Its name reflects the hope of the world during the final months of World War II.
The pictorial postmark features a simple rose and a square border surrounding the stamp title, as well as the date and location of stamp issuance: April 21, 2018, Shreveport, LA 71102.
Made in the USA.
SKUs featured on this page: 681816
Celebrate the beauty of a favorite flower with this new Peace Rose Digital Color Postmark First Day Cover. The #6 ¾ envelope bears an affixed Forever® stamp cancelled with an official First Day of Issue color postmark.
This closeup of the popular Peace rose blossom highlights the flower’s coloring, with creamy yellow petals touched at the edges with pink. Its name reflects the hope of the world during the final months of World War II.
The digital color postmark features a soft watercolor of a peace rose. Also included are the stamp title, as well as the date and location of stamp issuance: April 21, 2018, Shreveport, LA 71102.
Made in the USA.
SKUs featured on this page: 681821
Celebrate the beauty of a favorite flower and recognize the First Day of Issue of the Peace Rose Forever® stamp, with this new official ceremony program and cover.
The full-color program features the First Day Ceremony agenda and participants on one side, with a narrative about the stamp design on the reverse.
The program is tucked inside a 9 × 6-inch envelope bearing an affixed Forever® stamp and the official First Day of Issue cancellation. Also included are the words “First Day of Issue Ceremony Program” and “Celebrate the Art of Stamps” along with the official United States Postal Service® logo.
Made in the USA.
SKUs featured on this page: 681830
Celebrate the beauty of a favorite flower with this keepsake combination: one booklet of 20 Peace Rose Forever® stamps and one Digital Color Postmark First Day Cover.
This closeup of the popular Peace rose blossom highlights the flower’s coloring, with creamy yellow petals touched at the edges with pink. Its name reflects the hope of the world during the final months of World War II.
The digital color postmark features a soft watercolor of a peace rose. Also included are the stamp title, as well as the date and location of stamp issuance: April 21, 2018, Shreveport, LA 71102.
Made in the USA.
SKUs featured on this page: 681810
Celebrate the beauty of a favorite flower with this new Peace Rose Stamp Ceremony Memento.
This new collectible contains the First Day of Issue Ceremony Invitation, the First Day of Issue Ceremony Program, Digital Color Postmark First Day Cover, and a booklet of 20 Peace Rose Forever® stamps.
This closeup of the popular Peace rose blossom highlights the flower’s coloring, with creamy yellow petals touched at the edges with pink. Its name reflects the hope of the world during the final months of World War II.
Made in the USA.
SKUs featured on this page: 681834
On April 21, 2018, in Shreveport, LA, the U.S. Postal Service® will issue the Peace Rose stamp (Forever® priced at the First-Class Mail® rate) in one design, in a pressure-sensitive adhesive double-sided booklet of 20 stamps. The stamp will go on sale nationwide April 21, 2018.
The U.S. Postal Service® issues a new stamp celebrating one of the most popular roses of all time.
The stamp art features a photograph of a beautiful Peace rose blossom. The close-up shows details of the creamy yellow petals touched at the edges with pink.
Development of what was to become the Peace rose began with a famous rose-breeding family in mid-1930s France. In 1935, the Meilland family had crossbred hundreds of roses hoping to create new commercially viable varieties. One of the crosses yielded a unique bloom with yellow petals delicately edged with pink, which they named Madame A. Meilland. Years later, as World War II escalated in Europe and France was threatened with invasion, two packages of the new rose’s budwood were sent to plantsmen in Germany and Italy. A third package was entrusted to the U.S. consul, who took it with him as he left France promising to send it on to American grower Conard-Pyle. This U.S. breeder cultivated the rose and sent cuttings to other growers to test the plant in various climatic zones and soil conditions. The trials were so successful that the rose was introduced on April 29, 1945, and made available for sale to the public. With war still raging across the globe, American growers selected a new name for the rose as a reflection of the world’s most fervent desire: peace.
Peace has become one of the most popular roses in history. It revolutionized hybrid tea roses with its unique coloring, hardiness, and disease resistance. Peace has been the parent of hundreds of popular hybrids, and millions of the original variety have been planted in gardens worldwide.
Art director Ethel Kessler designed the stamp, which features an existing photograph taken by Richard C. Baer.
Peace Rose is being issued as a Forever® stamp in booklets of 20.
This Forever stamp will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail® one-ounce price.