Year of the Tiger: Narcissus Flowers (Celebrating Chinese Lunar New Year), Full Sheet of 12 x 44-Cent Postage Stamps, USA 2010, Scott 4435

On January 14, 2010, in Los Angeles, California, at the El Pueblo Historical Monument, the Postal Service issued a 44-cent Celebrating Lunar New Year: Year of the Tiger commemorative stamp in a pressure-sensitive adhesive souvenir sheet of twelve stamps. Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland, designed the stamp. The Postal Service introduced the Celebrating Lunar New Year series in 2008. This was the third stamp in that series, which will continue through 2019 with stamps for the Year of the Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Ram, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Boar. Art Director Ethel Kessler and artist Kam Mak worked on the new series and decided to focus on some of the common ways the Lunar New Year Holiday is celebrated. To commemorate the Year of the Tiger, which begins February 14, 2010, they chose narcissus flowers, considered appropriate at this time of renewed hope for the future. The illustration was originally created using oil paints on a fiberboard panel. Kessler's design also incorporates elements from the previous series of Lunar New Year stamps, using Clarence Lee's intricate paper-cut design of a tiger and the Chinese character, drawn in grass-style calligraphy by Lau Bun.

• Celebrating Chinese Lunar New Year: Year of the Tiger
• Featuring Narcissus flowers for this time of renewed hope for the future.
• Years of the Tiger include 1914, 1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010, and 2022.
• Collectible stamps or use for postage.