To be released in a pane of 12 self adhesives on 23 January 2012. This will be the first day of the Dragon Year.
The first day ceremony will be held in San Francisco, CA.
Posts Tagged ‘Chinese New Year’
USA 2012 Lunar New Year Dragon Stamp
January 12th, 2012Hong Kong’s Lunar New Year stamps
December 31st, 2010Hong Kong Post will be offering special collectors sheets apart from the normal special stamps for the Lunar New Year/Zodiac issue. The stamps and sheets will be released on 22 January.
Special stamps set of 4v
Souvenir sheet (perforated and imperforate)
Gold foil and silver foil sheetlet
The four lunar animals from the current series in one sheetet.
Special sheetlet with all twelve zodiac animals.
USPS Lunar New Year – Year of the Rabbit
December 31st, 2010
On Jan. 22, the U.S. Postal Service will issue the fourth of twelve stamps in its Celebrating Lunar New Year series, which began in 2008 with the Year of the Rat. The Year of the Rabbit begins on Feb. 3, 2011, and ends on Jan. 22, 2012.
The Lunar New Year is celebrated primarily by people of Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Tibetan, and Mongolian heritage in many parts of the world. In the United States as elsewhere, the occasion is marked in various ways across a diverse array of cultures. Parades, parties, and other special events are common.
Kumquats, such as those depicted in the stamp art, are given as gifts and eaten for luck at this time of renewed hope for the future.
Canada’s Year of Rabbit stamps
December 19th, 2010
(Images not to scale)
Canada Post will issue a stamp and souvenir sheet on 7 January 2011 to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Lunar Year of the Rabbit.
This will be the third release of a second 12-year Lunar New Year series, the new stamps include one domestic stamp and one international stamp.
Year of Rabbit stamps from New Zealand
December 10th, 2010
New Zealand Post will be issuing the Year of Rabbit stamps on 12 January 2011. Four stamps and a miniature sheet will be available.
USA Olympic stamp
July 26th, 2008
The United States Postal Service has issued a new stamp to commemorate the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
The stamps design shows a leaping gymnast in red. It was designed by Clarence Chang who was the designer of the popular 1992 Year of the Rooster Chinese New Year stamp.
He was subsequently commissioned for the next 12 yearly issues of Chinese New Year stamps.
