Edgar Allan Poe featured on new US stamp
The USPS has issued a 42-cent Edgar Allan Poe commemorative stamp in one design in a pressure-sensitive adhesive pane of 20 stamps.
The USPS has issued a 42-cent Edgar Allan Poe commemorative stamp in one design in a pressure-sensitive adhesive pane of 20 stamps.
Designed by Carl T. Herrman, the stamp is on sale across the USA. Some 30m stamps have been printed.
This year, the USPS commemorates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, one of America’s most extraordinary poets and fiction writers. For more than a century and a half, Poe and his works have been praised by admirers around the world, including English poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson, who dubbed Poe, “the literary glory of America.” British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle called him “the supreme original short story writer of all time.”
The stamp portrait of Edgar Allan Poe is by award-winning artist Michael J. Deas of New Orleans, whose research over the years has made him well acquainted with Poe’s appearance.
Customers have 90 days from the official first day of issuance date to obtain local first day of sale postmarks on new stamps and stationery items.
Collectors may request a first day of sale postmarks by mail only. There is no charge for servicing of first day of sale postmarks up to 50 covers. Mail-in customers must supply a self-addressed envelope with sufficient return postage applied to return the serviced covers.
