commemorative stamp
Honoring postal label
A commemorative stamp is a postage stamp issued to honor a person, event, or anniversary rather than for routine mail service.
Unlike definitive stamps kept in continuous production, commemoratives are printed in limited quantities for a specific period: The post office released a commemorative stamp for the moon landing's fiftieth anniversary.
Collectors prize them.
- postageFee for mailing
- philatelyStudy of postal stamps
- collectorOne who gathers items
- issuePoint of contention
- special editionEnhanced variant with extras
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- mailletter, letters, mail, email, envelope
- memorialsmemorials, gravestone, monument, headstone, grave markers
- postagepostage paid, postage due, postage meter, postal rate, prepaid postage
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- celebrationsgraduation, festival, party, wedding, fireworks
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