USPS — A Visit From St. Nick
New digital collectible stamp artwork from USPS drops Friday, 24 December at 12PM PT, solely on the VeVe app for iOS and Android!
America Postal Service (USPS) returns to VeVe with one other collection simply in time for the Holidays!
A Go to from St. Nick
Each Christmas, kids all around the globe dream of a go to from St. Nick. The U.S. Postal Service® celebrates that extremely anticipated occasion with 4 new stamps telling the story of St. Nick’s go to on Christmas Eve. Artwork director Greg Breeding designed the stamps with unique artwork by Brad Woodard.
In 1823, the nameless publication of the poem “A Go to from St. Nicholas,” maybe higher referred to as “The Night time earlier than Christmas,” helped to form a lot of our fashionable mythology of the vacation. St. Nicholas’s sleigh is pulled by eight flying reindeer, every of them rigorously referred to as by identify. Wearing fur, with twinkling eyes, rosy cheeks, and dimples, St. Nick visits every dwelling to fill kids’s stockings with presents. He’s described as a merry, plump elf — very completely different from the unique somewhat somber bishop.
Blind Containers
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Santa on a Snowy Rooftop
Within the first stamp, Santa stands on a snowy rooftop, sack slung throughout his again, with one leg contained in the red-brick chimney. St. Nick — Santa Claus — is one in every of our most acknowledged and beloved cultural icons, his jolly giggle and smiling eyes a contented reminder that the vacations are close to.
Drop Date: 24 December 2021 12PM PT
Listing Worth: 6.00
Editions: 8,888
Rarity: Widespread
License: USPS
Model: A Go to From St. Nick
Collection: 1
Out there: Globally
Winking Santa
The second stamp is a close-up of a winking Santa. Twentieth-century artists primarily based their illustrations of Santa Claus on a few of Nast’s photos, in addition to on the outline within the poem “The Night time Earlier than Christmas.” Their portrayals of a rosy-cheeked, smiling, grandfatherly man in his pink, fur-trimmed swimsuit appeared to embody the very essence of “Santa.” A go to from St. Nick brings pleasure to the child in all of us.
Drop Date: 24 December 2021 12PM PT
Listing Worth: 6.00
Editions: 7,777
Rarity: Unusual
License: USPS
Model: A Go to From St. Nick
Collection: 1
Out there: Globally
Santa and His Reindeer
The third stamp reveals Santa and a few of his reindeer as they journey on to their subsequent cease. In an 1809 satire, American writer Washington Irving described a dream wherein St. Nick traveled in a flying wagon. A couple of years later, in 1821, the illustrations accompanying the poem “The Youngsters’s Good friend” additional embellished the legend with “Santeclaus” arriving in a sleigh drawn by a reindeer.
Drop Date: 24 December 2021 12PM PT
Listing Worth: 6.00
Editions: 6,666
Rarity: Uncommon
License: USPS
Model: A Go to From St. Nick
Collection: 1
Out there: Globally
Santa Comes Down the Chimney
The fourth stamp reveals Santa as he descends via the chimney, his legs dangling over the fireplace. European immigrants dropped at their new nation people characters that through the years turned our present-day Santa Claus. A type of characters was Sinterklaas, who delivered presents on the eve of the feast day of St. Nicholas of Myra, a third-century bishop.
Drop Date: 24 December 2021 12PM PT
Listing Worth: 6.00
Editions: 5,555
Rarity: Extremely Uncommon
License: USPS
Model: A Go to From St. Nick
Collection: 1
Out there: Globally
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