Toronto Heralds in the year of the Ram 2015 with a new stamp. 2015 is the year of the Ram and for Toronto Canada and its postal services, Canada Post, the Chinese year of the Ram was honoured with the launch of a commemorative stamp. A celebration of the love, of the Chinese lunar calendar’s, animal totems and a culture, that has brought so much to Canada. Canada Post’s Atrium at the Bay office was the site of a media scrum more fitting of a rock personality than a stamp. The Chinese Acting Consul General Zhang Chuanbing unveiled this auspicious stamp. Jim Phillips, Director, of Stamp Services, Canada Post introduced the Consular General along with the stamp designer Hélène L’Heureux and Aries Cheung, the Coin designer for the Royal Canadian mint. Jim Philips waxed euphorically, “The lunar New Year is a time that honours both deities and ancestors, and The Lunar New Year is the most important date in the Chinese calendar and an important date in the Canada post’s philatelic calendar. The year of the Ram is the seventh in a twelve year series. Canada Post’s Commemorative Stamp Program is more than 160 years old and it began with Sir Sanford Flemming who designed in 1851 the Three-Penny Beaver stamp. This year, Hélène L’Heureux was given the honour of designing these sought after stamps. French-Canadien L’Heureux shared her thoughts on her design inspiration for the stamp. “I looked inside books, libraries, and museums and I find this interpretation of the three rams breeding in spring. It meant good luck. “Her design is a collaboration with famous Hong Kong born calligrapher Ngan Siu-Mui and Susan Scott, a Montreal wood-cut printer. Three rams with magnificent horns are seen in profile in bas relief on an embossed red and green spring motif. The stamps are a fecund celebration of renewal. L’Heureux’s depiction was described by Philips, ‘throughout our work with this stamp, the ram is a sacred symbol of good fortune.” The two stamps in this series are the domestic rate of $0.85 featuring the three rams and the International rate $2.50 shown in a typical Chinese scroll format. The texts on the stamps are in French, Chinese and English. youtu.be/1j4lPNUyWBY youtu.be/nyDkD5SVnFM
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 01:29:47 +0000
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