About This Stamp
On June 2, 1995, USPS issued a 32-cent Rose definitive stamp with a pink rose instead of a red rose. The change in color resulted from the change in first-class rates from 29 cents to 32 cents. It was sold in panes of 20 and included a “1995” year date in the lower left corner below the design. The coil version was sold in rolls of 5,000 and strips of 20.
Stamp Venturers printed the pink, green, and black self-adhesive stamp on a Champlain webfed gravure press 1. It was distributed in panes of 20 stamps plus a label, three stamps across and seven 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 and on every 20th coil stamp. The stamps have die-cut perforations on two, three, or four sides.
A rose is a flowering shrub (genus Rosa) as well as the flower of this shrub. There are more than a hundred species of wild roses, all native to the northern hemisphere and primarily from temperate regions. The species form a group of generally thorny shrubs or climbers, and sometimes trailing plants, reaching 6.5–16.5 feet tall.
The flowers typically have five petals, usually white or pink, in a few species yellow or red.