Colorado Hairstreak Stamps $1.19, Sheet of 20

Name: Colorado Hairstreak Stamps $1.19, Sheet of 20
SKU: 121204
Price: 23.80 USD
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Colorado Hairstreak Stamps $1.19, Sheet of 20

Non-Machineable for Square Envelopes
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Issue Date: 3/9/2021

The Colorado hairstreak butterfly graces the eighth non-machineable butterfly stamp for use on irregularly sized envelopes, such as square greeting cards, invitations, or announcements.

The stamp art was digitally created using images of preserved butterflies as a starting point. The result is a highly stylized, simplified image of a Colorado hairstreak rather than an exact replica.

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Sheet of 20 $23.80

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The Colorado hairstreak butterfly graces the eighth non-machineable butterfly stamp for use on irregularly sized envelopes, such as square greeting cards, invitations, or announcements.

The stamp art was digitally created using images of preserved butterflies as a starting point. The result is a highly stylized, simplified image of a Colorado hairstreak rather than an exact replica.

The shimmering purple Colorado hairstreak butterfly (Hypaurotis crysalus) dwells in the forest canopy of that state and much of the Southwest. Never venturing far from its host plant, the Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii), it feeds on tree sap and fallen raindrops.

The Colorado hairstreak - Colorado's official state insect - has slender, hair-like, hind-wing appendages that resemble antennae. Nearby, on the underside of the wings, are spots that look like eyes and the thin streaks that give the hairstreak its name. Pointing its abdomen upward with false antennae held high, the butterfly's evolutionary decoys fool predators into attacking the false head on the wing. A hungry bird ends up with an unsatisfying beakful of scaly wing.

In autumn, after mating, the female lays her eggs. The plump, green caterpillar hatches in spring and feeds on tender new oak leaves. After metamorphosis, the Colorado hairstreak butterfly, with a wingspan of about 1^1/2 inches, darts in and out of the tree branches in quick, erratic flight.

The square format of the stamp was developed in partnership with the greeting card industry specifically for oversized or square envelopes. These envelopes cannot pass through the automated Postal processing system and have to be hand-cancelled. They are charged a non-machineable surcharge even if they weigh less than one ounce. Greeting card envelopes printed with a silhouette of a butterfly indicate the need for additional postage or the use of a butterfly stamp. Any non-machineable envelope, like oddly shaped or vertical envelopes, as well as lumpy envelopes, rigid envelopes, or mail with clasps, ribbons, or buttons, may use this stamp.

Colorado Hairstreak is available in sheets of twenty. The words "NON-MACHINEABLE SURCHARGE" on the stamp indicate its usage value. Like a Forever® stamp, this stamp will always be valid for the rate printed on it.

Nationally known artist Tom Engeman created the stamp art. Art director Derry Noyes designed the stamp.

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Issue:	Colorado Hairstreak Stamp
Item Number:	121200
Denomination &	Non-machineable Surcharge
Type of Issue:
Format:	Pane of 20 (1 design)
Series:	N/A
Issue Date & City:	March 9, 2021, Estes Park, CO 80517
Art Director:	Derry Noyes, Washington, DC
Designer:	Derry Noyes, Washington, DC
Artist:	Tom Engeman, Kensington, MD
Modeler:	Sandra Lane/Michelle Finn
Manufacturing Process:	Offset, Microprint
Printer:	Banknote Corporation of America
Press Type:	Alprinta 74
Stamps per Pane:	20
Print Quantity:	75,000,000 stamps
Paper Type:	Phosphor, Block Tag
Adhesive Type:	Pressure-sensitive
Colors:	Black, Pantone 1795, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow
Stamp Orientation:	Square
Image Area (w x h):	1.085 x 1.085 in./27.559 x 27.559 mm
Overall Size (w x h):	1.225 x 1.225 in./31.115 x 31.115 mm
Full Pane Size (w x h):	5.9 x 7.12 in./149.86 x 180.848 mm
Plate Size:	240 stamps per revolution
Plate Number:	“B” followed by five (5) single digits in four corners
Marginal Markings:
Front:	Header: Colorado Hairstreak • Plate number in four corners
Back:	©2020 USPS • USPS logo • 2 barcodes (121200) • Plate position diagram (6) • Promotional text

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