Add a favorite American flower to your correspondence with the Peonies stamp.
The stamp features a photograph of 3 large, showy red blossoms on a yellow-toned cream background.
The Peonies stamp is being issued as a 3-cent definitive stamp and is offered in panes of 20.
The stamp features 3 large, showy red blossoms on a yellow-toned cream background.
To create the image, the photographer backlit the arrangement of flowers on a light box and combined multiple photographic exposures, resulting in a luminous, transparent look.
The flowers were grown in his backyard in Berkeley, California.