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2026 First-Class Forever Stamps,Treasures of the Revolutionary Era
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2026 Treasures of the Revolutionary Era
- Set of 10 stamps showing common objects of the time
- Part of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution celebrations
- Sold in a 20-stamp prestige booklet
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Treasures of the Revolutionary Era
Value: 78¢, First Class Mail Rate
First Day of Issue: May 23, 2026
First Day City: Boston, Massachusetts
Format: Prestige booklet of 20
Why the stamp was issued: [Story of why the stamp was issued. Story of why the stamp was issued. Story of why the stamp was issued. Story of why the stamp was issued.]
About the stamp design: The stamps and booklet were designed by USPS art director Ethel Kessler.
Special design details: The prestige booklet includes images and text about each object in its historical context.
First Day City: These stamps were issued as part of the opening ceremony of the 2026 Boston World Exposition.
History the stamp represents: History tends to remember the Revolution through its grandest artifacts — the Declaration, the Constitution, dramatic paintings of battle. These were made to be preserved, to be seen, to endure. Far less likely to survive were the objects of ordinary life. A soldier’s powder horn. A piece of paper currency. A teapot with a political motto. Objects that were carried through daily life, with no expectation that they would sit in museums over two centuries later.
The Treasures of the Revolutionary Era stamps were issued to mark 250 years of American independence. Each pictures an artifact from the era — tools of war, instruments of governance, records of daily life. Together they invite us to step past the dates and battles and into the texture of a world in motion. To see the powder horn on a soldier’s hip. To hear the spinning wheel turning. To hold, if only in imagination, the currency of a nation that didn’t yet know it would survive.
Some of these objects tell stories of sacrifice. Others speak of resistance, diplomacy, or the quiet determination of people living through extraordinary times. Each represents a different kind of participation in something enormous. They were made and used by people with no thought of posterity. That we can still hold them — still read them — is what keeps the history alive rather than merely remembered.
2026 Treasures of the Revolutionary Era
- Set of 10 stamps showing common objects of the time
- Part of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution celebrations
- Sold in a 20-stamp prestige booklet
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Treasures of the Revolutionary Era
Value: 78¢, First Class Mail Rate
First Day of Issue: May 23, 2026
First Day City: Boston, Massachusetts
Format: Prestige booklet of 20
Why the stamp was issued: [Story of why the stamp was issued. Story of why the stamp was issued. Story of why the stamp was issued. Story of why the stamp was issued.]
About the stamp design: The stamps and booklet were designed by USPS art director Ethel Kessler.
Special design details: The prestige booklet includes images and text about each object in its historical context.
First Day City: These stamps were issued as part of the opening ceremony of the 2026 Boston World Exposition.
History the stamp represents: History tends to remember the Revolution through its grandest artifacts — the Declaration, the Constitution, dramatic paintings of battle. These were made to be preserved, to be seen, to endure. Far less likely to survive were the objects of ordinary life. A soldier’s powder horn. A piece of paper currency. A teapot with a political motto. Objects that were carried through daily life, with no expectation that they would sit in museums over two centuries later.
The Treasures of the Revolutionary Era stamps were issued to mark 250 years of American independence. Each pictures an artifact from the era — tools of war, instruments of governance, records of daily life. Together they invite us to step past the dates and battles and into the texture of a world in motion. To see the powder horn on a soldier’s hip. To hear the spinning wheel turning. To hold, if only in imagination, the currency of a nation that didn’t yet know it would survive.
Some of these objects tell stories of sacrifice. Others speak of resistance, diplomacy, or the quiet determination of people living through extraordinary times. Each represents a different kind of participation in something enormous. They were made and used by people with no thought of posterity. That we can still hold them — still read them — is what keeps the history alive rather than merely remembered.
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