The Art of Disney: Celebration Stamps 2005

The Postal ServiceTM will issue 37-cent, The Art of Disney: Celebration commemorative stamps in four designs on June 30, 2005, in Anaheim, California, at the Disneyland Resort. The theme "Celebration" was selected to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the opening of Disneyland in 1955. The stamps designed by David Pacheco, of Burbank, California, go on sale nationwide July 1, 2005.

This is the second stamp pane honoring the art of Disney to be issued by the U.S. Postal Service®. The first, issued in 2004, was on the theme of friendship. With these stamps, the Postal Service honors the "art" of celebration as portrayed by Walt Disney and his studio animators. Postal Service art director Terrence McCaffrey joined with a Disney team to represent on the stamps four types of celebration:

• Mickey Mouse and his faithful dog Pluto are experts when it comes to sharing cake and having good times.

• A very merry tea party hosted by the Mad Hatter gives Alice a chance to catch up on all the news in Wonderland.

• Ariel, a little mermaid, longs to enjoy life on land, but that does not stop her from enjoying music with Flounder and her other undersea friends.