US 2021 Cotton Patch Goose : Heritage Breeds 55c. Scott. 5588
Series: Heritage Breeds (2021)
Stamp details: Cotton Patch Goose
Issued date: 17-05-2021 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Face value: 55c.
(FOREVER º - No Face Value)
Format: Pane of 20
Emission: Commemorative
First Day City: Mount Vernon, Virginia
Catalogue No:-
Scott (USA): 5588
Michel (Germany): 5821BA
Yvert et Tellier (France): 5430
Unificato (Italy): 5970A
Designers: Zack Bryant (designer) ; Aliza Eliazarov (photographer)
Dimensions (height x width):
39.75mm x 31.25mm
Printer: Banknote Corporation of America
Print Method: Offset, Flexographic
Perforation: Serpentine Die Cut 10¾
Stamp Colors: Multicolored
Gum type: Self-Adhesive
Themes: Bird, Goose, Poultry
Total print: 2,500,000 (estimate)
Note: Stamp from 'block of 10'
Face value US$0.55 on day of issue.
Stamp details: Cotton Patch Goose
Issued date: 17-05-2021 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Face value: 55c.
(FOREVER º - No Face Value)
Format: Pane of 20
Emission: Commemorative
First Day City: Mount Vernon, Virginia
Catalogue No:-
Scott (USA): 5588
Michel (Germany): 5821BA
Yvert et Tellier (France): 5430
Unificato (Italy): 5970A
Designers: Zack Bryant (designer) ; Aliza Eliazarov (photographer)
Dimensions (height x width):
39.75mm x 31.25mm
Printer: Banknote Corporation of America
Print Method: Offset, Flexographic
Perforation: Serpentine Die Cut 10¾
Stamp Colors: Multicolored
Gum type: Self-Adhesive
Themes: Bird, Goose, Poultry
Total print: 2,500,000 (estimate)
Note: Stamp from 'block of 10'
Face value US$0.55 on day of issue.
Description:- The Cotton Patch is a breed of domestic goose originating in the Southern United States. It is so named because it traditionally was used to weed fields of cotton, corn, and other crops. Up until the 1950s, Cotton Patch geese were customarily kept on rural Southern homesteads and farms as multi-purpose poultry used for weeding, meat, eggs, down, and grease. Their grazing kept fields clear of crabgrass and other weeds, while leaving crops unharmed and reducing the amount of manual labor necessary. After the mid-20th century, herbicides almost entirely replaced weeding on American farms, and the Cotton Patch goose declined in concert. Considered critically endangered by the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, the Society for the Preservation of Poultry Antiquities, and the American Poultry Association, it has largely disappeared from the Southern farms where it was once common. It is also included in Slow Food USA's Ark of Taste, a catalog of heritage foods in danger of extinction.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Patch_goose
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Patch_goose