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New religious postage stamp

gidgetgh — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 10:47:43 GMT

It's showing available for pre-order now. Being released October 11th.

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SahmIam — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 12:22:14 GMT

Beautiful.

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shell garden — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 13:24:49 GMT

I love this! I always buy these beautiful postage stamps, especially for the holidays! Thank you for letting us know!!!

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beckyb1012 — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 13:45:48 GMT

The whole photo is just breath taking. I so love the display of both their hands.

Thank you for sharing with us this morning.

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NickNack — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 13:54:53 GMT

This is beautiful!

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circles — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:29:34 GMT

where i use to work we sold stamps all year long...during the holidays we would get in christmas ones...santas or religious...we had a devil of a time getting people to take the religious ones...while the santa ones were gone right away...sad...

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Mominohio — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:44:23 GMT

@circles wrote:
where i use to work we sold stamps all year long...during the holidays we would get in christmas ones...santas or religious...we had a devil of a time getting people to take the religious ones...while the santa ones were gone right away...sad...

I would have to agree with you. Somehow the religious aspect of the holiday seems to be getting more and more overshadowed.

I will say, for me personally, I'd like to buy a religious stamp, but the ones I see offered, like the one above, are not all that pretty to me.

I'm sure this is a fine work of art in and of itself, but I just don't care for it. I respect it, but don't find it beautiful aesthetically. Mother and Child is always 'beautiful' in the religious sense to me, but this style of depiction just isn't, to me, and perhaps many others as well.

Many of the religious stamps I have seen are in this same style. Perhaps if they came out with more variety in style, they would be more popular.

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ROMARY — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:33:37 GMT

Very beautiful work of art.

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SunValley — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:03:25 GMT

Beautiful!

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muttmom — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 19:49:58 GMT

The other religious stamp is lovely but this one is beautiful.

I use only religious stamps on our Christmas cards. As they say, "It is the reason for the season."

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goldensrbest — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 19:52:16 GMT

Both the stamps are so pretty, i have to wonder if someday ,they will not be able to sell these,how sad would that be.

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IamMrsG — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 20:04:11 GMT

I prefer religious Christmas cards and stamps over the secular themed ones. While I can appreciate the classic artistry and beauty of the 15th century art on this stamp, it is not my taste.

In the twenty-first century, for me, Christianity is about joy, the Good News and Christmas is about the celebration of a joyous birth. I see no joy in this art, do not relate to it, and that is why I will purchase the 2nd religious version shown in another thread.

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proudlyfromNJ — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 20:21:44 GMT

@gidgetgh Thank you for the stamps. Beautiful! I just used up the ones I has from last year! Can't decide which ones to purchase.

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Wayne-QVC — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 00:51:39 GMT

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insomniac2 — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 01:45:58 GMT

Oh, it's exquisite!

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Noel7 — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 01:47:35 GMT

@gidgetgh wrote:
It's showing available for pre-order now. Being released October 11th.

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I love this. It's in the style of a much earlier century. 15th maybe? We must have an art historian on the forum 😊

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Noel7 — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 01:59:30 GMT

OK, duh. I did not see that it said 15th century on it.

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Juniebugz — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 02:24:15 GMT

Beautiful @gidgetgh

https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2015/pr15_069.htm

Florentine Madonna and Child

This Christmas Forever stamp features a detail of Madonna and Child, a 15th-century tempra-on-panel painting in the Widener Collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The painting is dated to circa 1470, and its anonymous artist is known only as “a Follower of Fra Filippo Lippi and Pesellino.” William Gicker of Washington, DC, was the art director for the stamp.

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HappyDaze — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:57:26 GMT

I like this one for the work of art it is. Beautiful!

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JasoninBoston — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 21:27:37 GMT

@gidgetgh wrote:
It's showing available for pre-order now. Being released October 11th.

Beautiful