About This Stamp
The Postal Service issued the Rose definitive stamp, depicting a red rose, on August 19, 1993, in Houston, Texas, as a pane of 18 die-cut self-adhesive stamps. Strips, or coils, were also produced to facilitate machine-affixing of the stamps.
Stamp Venturers printed the red, green, and black self-adhesive stamp on a Champlain webfed gravure press. It was distributed in panes of 18, three stamps across and six down on the pane. Gravure printing cylinders of 360 subjects were used to print the stamps. One group of three cylinder numbers preceded by the letter ‘S’ appears on the peel-off selvage strip. The stamp has die-cut perforations.
The coil stamps were printed from gravure printing cylinders of 220 subjects. No cylinder numbers were printed on the coil stamps.