1999.04.10 Fruit Berries Stamps

Fruit Berries Stamps

Fruit Berries Coil Stamps

On April 10, The U.S. Postal Service issued four new stamps featuring blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries. The colorful Fruit Berries stamps mark the first time a stamp coil of 100 with more than one design has been issued.

The Fruit Berries stamps, designed by Howard Paine of Delaplane, VA, and illustrated by Ned Seidler of Hampton Bay, NY, will be available in three self-adhesive formats: coils of 100, convertible booklets of 20, and vending booklets of 15. The 100-stamp coil features the four Fruit Berries stamps adjacent to one another on the backing paper liner, with no space between the stamp.


 
Format: Self-adhesive Coils of 100 (4 designs) Convertible booklet of 20 (4 designs) Vending booklet of 15 (4 designs)
Series:
N/A
Issue Date & City:
April 10, 1999, Ponchatoula, LA 70454
Illustrator:
Ned Seidler, Hampton Bay, NY
Designer:
Howard Paine, Delaplane, VA
Engraver:
N/A
Art Director: 
Howard Paine, Delaplane, VA
Typographer: 
Tom Mann, Vancouver, WA
Modeler:
Guilford Gravure, Guilford, CT
Manufacturing Process: 
Gravure
Printer: 
Banknote Corporation of America, Inc. (BCA)
Printed at:
Guilford Gravure, Guilford, CT
Press Type:
Cerutti 8/C
Stamps Layout:
100 per coil
20 per booklet
15 per booklet
Print Quantity: 
2 billion stamps
1.2 billion stamps
153.750 million stamps
Paper Type:
Pre-phosphored Type I
Gum Type: 
Self-adhesive
Processed at: Guilford Gravure, Guilford, CT BCA, Browns Summit, NC Guilford Gravure, Guilford, CT
Colors (PMS Colors): 
Yellow, Magenta, Cyan, Black
Stamp Orientation:
Vertical
Image Area:
18.03 x 21.08 mm
18.29 x 21.08 mm
18.29 x 21.08 mm
Overall Size:
22.10 x 24.64 mm
22.10 x 24.89 mm
22.10 x 24.89 mm
Full Pane Size:
N/A
66.29 x 184.66 mm
44.20 x 240.54 mm
Plate Size:
384 stamps per revolution
420 stamps per revolution
300 stamps per revolution
Plate Numbers:
“B” followed by four (4) single digits
Marginal Markings:
N/A
  “© USPS 1998” * Plate Numbers * Peel here to fold * Self-adhesive stamps * DO NOT WET 
Scott Number: blueberry   3302
raspberry   3303
blackberry 3304
strawberry 3305		 blueberry   3294
raspberry   3295
strawberry 3296
blackberry 3297		 blueberry   3298
strawberry 3299
raspberry   3300
blackberry  3301
Original information from USPS News