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Angel's Trumpets 2026 4-Cent Stamps - Nature Flowers Definitive Mail-Use | Sheet of 20
Angel's Trumpets 2026 4-Cent Stamps - Nature Flowers Definitive Mail-Use | Sheet of 20
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- Proclaim the beauty of summer in bloom with the 4 Angel's Trumpets stamps. Released as a sheet of 20 and coil of 10,000, these stamps follow the 2024 release of other low-denomination flower stamps.
- The 4 Angel's Trumpets stamps feature 4 peachy pink trumpet-shaped blossoms on a yellow-toned cream background. The 4 blossoms represent the stamp’s 4-cent denomination.
- 4 Definitive Stamp: The perfect touch for your oversized mail pieces.
- Sheet of 20: Provides enough stamps for multiple mailings.
- Self-Adhesive: Easy to use - simply peel and stick.
- Made in the USA: High-quality, detailed stamp artwork made and printed domestically.
The United States Postal Service celebrates the timeless beauty of angel's trumpets with these new four-cent definitive stamps. With their large trumpet-shaped blossoms and distinctive sweet smell, angel’s trumpets are a summer favorite.
To create the image, photographer Harold Davis backlit the flowers on a light box and combined multiple photographic exposures, resulting in a luminous, transparent look. He also scanned a sheet of aged paper and, in post-production, added the scan as a background to the floral image.
"The point of this technique is to create a partially transparent effect using the colors that are passed through flower petals, rather than reflected by the petals, as is the case for most conventional flower photography," Davis says.
Davis organized the flowers and leaves such that the four "trumpets" are seen pointing upward, not hanging down as they would be in nature. He says the arrangement was chosen after trying numerous arrangements and discovering that photographing them with the flowers facing down didn’t work visually. But the name of the plant inspired a solution.
"It occurred to me that the common name for Brugmansia included the word trumpet - that they looked like trumpets, and that I could emphasize this correspondence in how I set the image up," Davis says.
While Davis does grow angel’s trumpets in his backyard, he found these flowers in his Berkeley, California, neighborhood. He says he has long been fascinated by angel’s trumpets and their "incredibly beautiful and large blossoms" and "unique shape."
The 4 Angel’s Trumpet stamp follows the 2024 release of other low-denomination flower stamps.
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