Plant and flower lovers can add a touch of garden elegance to their correspondence with a series of new stamps now available from the U.S. Postal Service.
The stamps showcase a variety of beautiful flowers in vibrant colors and intricate detail.
Low Denomination Flowers, five stamps, feature different flowers: a purple fringed tulip, poppies and coneflowers, daffodils, peonies and red tulips.
“These stamps will add elegance and warmth to any piece of mail, and make each message as special as the flowers they feature,” said Lisa Bobb-Semple, USPS director of stamp services. “Uniquely, each stamp features the same number of flowers as its cent value — like five flowers on a five-cent stamp — bringing a clever touch to the design.”
Ethel Kessler, an art director for USPS, designed the stamps using existing images by acclaimed photographer Harold Davis.
After photographing each arrangement backlit on a light box, Davis combined multiple photographic exposures of the flowers, resulting in a luminous, transparent look. He also scanned a sheet of aged paper and added it in post-production to achieve the desired cream-colored background.
All flowers photographed by Davis were grown in his backyard in Berkeley, California.
The series of low denomination stamps include:
- One-cent Fringed Tulip: Featuring one purple fringed tulip.
- Two-cent Daffodils: Featuring two yellow daffodil blossoms.
- Three-cent Peonies: Featuring three red peonies.
- Five-cent Red Tulips: Featuring five red tulip blossoms.
- Ten-cent Poppies and Coneflowers: Featuring four purple coneflowers and six white poppies.
