The Postal Service will release Low Denomination Flowers, five stamps featuring floral designs, on Thursday, July 18.
The stamps will be:
• 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;
• 10-cent Poppies and Coneflowers, featuring an array of 10 blossoms — six white poppies and four purple coneflowers — with a touch of greenery.
“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, the USPS stamp services director. “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 the Postal Service, designed the stamps using images by Harold Davis.
After photographing each arrangement backlit on a lightbox, 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, CA.
Each Low Denomination Flowers stamp will be available in panes of 20 and coils of 10,000 at Post Offices and usps.com.