Monday, February 1, 2021

SCOTT #2948 LOVE ANGEL 32 CENT

 

On February 1, 1995, the USPS issued two Love stamps that were both popular and controversial.  They featured child angels taken from Raphael’s massive masterpiece, the Sistine Madonna.  The USPS thought they’d be perfect for new stamps in the Love Series.  However, C. Douglas Lewis, a curator at the National Gallery of Art and vice chairman of the Citizen’s Stamp Advisory Committee, warned that child angels represented death – not love.

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