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(34¢) Seashells
(Ashton Potter)
Self-Adhesive Coil of 100
Scott # 5167-5170 Plate # P111111
PNC3 ID 2017-3
Series N/A
Issue Date & City January 28, 2017, San Diego, CA 92199
Nationwide Sale January 28, 2017
Designer Greg Breeding, Charlottesville, VA
Art Director Greg Breeding, Charlottesville, VA
Typographer Greg Breeding, Charlottesville, VA
Existing Art Sergio Baradat, New York, NY
Modeler Jose H. Sheeran
To Press / Initial Quantity 500,000,000 stamps
Coil Size 100
Printer Ashton Potter USA Ltd. APU
Press Muller A76
Process Offset, Microprint
Where Printed Williamsville, NY
Where Processed Ashton Potter USA) Ltd. APU)
Plate Size & Interval 768 stamps per revolution, Plate numbers every 32nd stamp below stamp image.
Paper Type Nonphosphored Type Ill, Block Tag
Adhesive Type Pressure-sensitive SA
Tagging Type Block Tag
Die Cut Gauge Serpentine 9 3/4 Vertical
Colors Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, PMS7471c Turquoise, PMS cool Gray 5c
Image Size (w x h) 0.7037 x 0.84 in. 1 17.87 x 21.34 mm
Overall Size (w x h) 0.8437 x 0.98 in. 121.43 x 24.89 mm
Back Numbers  
Earliest Known Use  
USPS Order Numbers 749904 Coil of 100, $34.00 USA, catalog, 2017 1 Spring 1 Volume 22, page 12
Availability 749916 FDC's Coils (set of 4, 2 stamps) $4.48
Official Announcement Postal Bulletin 22457 (12-22-16), Stamp Announcement 17-04: Seashells Stamps pages 65-66
Security  
Note Scott numbers Linn's, March 20, 2017 page76
Note Postal Bulletin 22457 (12-22-16), Stamp Announcement 17-04: Seashells Stamps pages 65-66 lists Item # 749900 for PSA Coil of 100, 2017 catalog has 749904 pa e 12
Announcement
On January 28, 2017, in San Diego, CA, the U.S. Postal Service® will issue the Seashells Postcard Rate stamps (Non-denominated, priced at 34 cents) in four designs, in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) pane of 20 stamps (Item 119600) and a PSA coil of 100 stamps (Item 749900).

The stamps will go on sale nationwide January 28, 2017.

Four new postcard stamps celebrate the wonder of seashells. Each stamp depicts one iconic shell found in North American waters: the alphabet cone, the Pacific calico scallop, the zebra nerite, and the Queen conch, commonly known as the pink conch. The highly stylized stamp art expresses a lighthearted, artistic view of shells. The horizontal swaths of white and blue in the background suggest waves washing the shells onto a beach. Art director Greg Breeding designed the stamps. Sergio Baradat created the stamp art.

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Updated March 7, 2015