The Postal Service will release Angel’s Trumpets, the latest stamp in its Low Denomination Flowers series, on Friday, Jan. 9.
As with all stamps in the series, the number of blooms on Angel’s Trumpets — four — corresponds to its cent value.
The stamp was designed by Ethel Kessler, an art director for USPS, using images by photographer Harold Davis.
Davis used flowers from his backyard in Berkeley, CA, for all the photographs.
To achieve the images’ luminosity, he backlit each floral arrangement on a lightbox before photographing them, then combined multiple exposures. Later, he scanned a sheet of old paper to achieve the desired cream-colored background.
Five stamps in the series were released in 2024: a 1-cent Fringed Tulip; 2-cent Daffodils; 3-cent Peonies; 5-cent Red Tulips; and 10-cent Poppies and Coneflowers.
Angel’s Trumpets will be available in panes of 20 and coils of 10,000 at Post Offices and on usps.com.
