The Canada Post Office in the city of Toronto has released a set of stamps with the figure of a horse to celebrate the coming of the Lunar New Year of the Horse, 2014.
The information was released by The Canada Post. The Canada Post has published stamps with animal designations on the occasion of the lunar new year over the 18 past years. Horse is the 7th mascot among 12 animal designations and it is the symbol of 2014. This year, the stamp set welcoming the Lunar New Year of the Horse 2014 is designed by Paprika Company, its headquarters in the city of Montreal, Quebec province.
This is the second time Paprika has designed a horse stamp. The previous stamp set was designed in 2002. Speaker Eugene Knapik of the Canada Post Office said that the stamp set this year chooses red as the dominant colour. According to the conception of nations which celebrate the Lunar New Year, the red colour brings luck to people.
“Using embossment technology, the stamp, highlighted with red colour like bright flames, shows the image of horse is moving strongly and full of vitality in the new year,” Mr. Knapik.
The stamp sets with horse published domestically and internationally have the same dimensions of 32mm x 32mm. In addition, there is also a souvenir stamp frame with horse designed with dimensions of 40mm x 140mm.
In particular, the stamp set for internal circulation only includes 25 stamps designed in a manner that the horse’s tail on front stamp “touches” the horse ‘s mane on behind stamp, therefore when 25 stamps are stretched in length, it will form a moving stamp strip as energetic waves./.
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