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“However, cartoonist Thomas Nast's portrait of the white-bearded Santa in his red suit would emerge as the version we are most familiar with today. “Santa was portrayed in all manner of guises during the 19th century: thin, fat, old or young an elf or a human and clothed in anything from long robes to a one-piece undergarment called a union suit, in colours of blue, red, green or purple. Even as illustrators popularised visual images of Santa, they were rarely consistent. He is described as a merry, plump elf, very different from the original rather sombre bishop.
Dressed in fur, with twinkling eyes, rosy cheeks and dimples, St Nick visits each home to fill children's stockings with presents. “The poem has St Nicholas making his journey in a sleigh pulled by eight flying reindeer, each of them carefully called by name. “In 1823, the anonymous publication of the poem A Visit From St Nicholas, perhaps better known as The Night Before Christmas, helped to shape much of our modern mythology of the holiday." In an 1809 satire, American author Washington Irving described a St Nick who appeared in a dream, portraying him travelling in a flying wagon. A few years later, in 1821, the illustrations accompanying the poem The Children's Friend further embellished the legend, with ‘Santeclaus’ arriving in a sleigh drawn by a reindeer.” “Sinterklaas delivered presents on December 5, the eve of the saint’s feast day. The story of St NicholasĪs the Santa Claus Post Office tells the story: “European immigrants brought to their new country folk characters that, over the years, became our present day Santa Claus. One of those characters was Sinterklaas, a folk version of the real-life St Nicholas of Myra, a third-century bishop whose feast day became associated with stories of his generosity.”
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The third stamp represents a winking Santa set against a green background, while the fourth shows Santa in his sleigh, with four reindeer visible, as they fly across the face of the Full Moon in a dark, starlit sky. A log sits in the grate, while three stockings hang on the mantel. In the first stamp, Santa stands on a snowy rooftop against a star-filled, pink-hued sky, his sack slung across his back and one leg inside the red-brick chimney. The second stamp shows Santa as he descends the chimney, his legs dangling over the hearth, clad in black boots and his trademark fur-trimmed suit. The ‘A Visit From St Nick’ stamps were designed by art director Greg Breeding, and feature four Santa designs created by illustrator Brad Woodard. The US Postal Service’s newest holiday stamps were recently unveiled in a dedication ceremony hosted at the Santa Claus Post Office. Issued as Forever stamps, which are always equal in value to the current price of sending a one-ounce letter by First Class Mail, they are available in booklets of 20 in US post offices, as USPS explained.
The four festive stamps in the ‘A Visit From St Nick’ series illustrate the story of Santa’s visit on Christmas Eve. “We're excited to be able to make these designs available in an entirely new way with the licensed digital collectable drop with VeVe.” “We are offering a new way to collect, and a way to remain relevant and innovative with new audiences,” said Chris Karpenko, the USPS’s executive director of brand marketing.
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The US Postal Service celebrates the event with a series of digital collectables stamp art telling the story of St Nick’s visit on Christmas Eve,” tweeted Veve. “Every Christmas, children all around the world dream of a visit from St Nick. The collection results from the USPS’s recent partnership with New Zealand-based NFT platform VeVe, which grants VeVe the rights to offer USPS digital collectable stamp art. The NFTs will be issued as blind boxes: buyers will not know which NFT they are getting until they receive it, giving everyone an equal chance of acquiring the more desirable items. The United States Postal Service (USPS) will drop a series of digital collectable stamps as NFTs on Christmas Eve.
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