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Audubon Stamp Coming June 27

A 37¢ John James Audubon commemorative — the second installment in the U.S. Postal Service's American Treasures series — will be issued June 27 in Santa Clara, Calif., on the opening day of the four-day summer Postage Stamp Mega Event there.

The stamp will be issued at noon in a ceremony at the show venue, the Santa Clara Convention Center, at 5001 Great America Parkway. No additional details were available when this issue went to press.

The artwork for the stamp was adapted from plate 354, a reprint of John James Audubon’s Birds of America. The plate portrays two male Louisiana tanagers (now known as Western tanagers) in spring plumage and adult scarlet tanagers — an “old male” in Spring plumage and an “old female.”

Audubon (1785-1851) was a self-taught artist and naturalist whose Birds of America has been described as “the finest pictorial ornithological book ever produced.”

The original is also one of the most sought-after books on earth; in March 2000, a set of Audubon’s Birds of Americawas sold for $8,000,000, a world auction record price for any printed book.