BOSTON 2026 Last Call for Label #5

Boston 2026 promotional label #5, the last in the series of five yearly releases leading up to the exhibition, goes off mail sale on April 30.

Mail-order fulfillment manager David DuBois is wrapping things up in preparation for his volunteer work during the show set-up and opening a few weeks later, wanting to assure customers receive their orders beforehand.

All five labels were the artistic creations of well-known stamp designer Chris Calle.  The first was issued in 2021 at the Great American Stamp Show in Chicago in sheetlets of 9 labels produced by the Portland Stamp Company, 2,550 unsigned and a limited edition of 450 artist numbered and signed.  The latter quickly sold out. Those formats and quantities were maintained in subsequent years.

That first label in the “Road to Boston 2026” series depicted a post rider in colonial garb, followed by Ben Franklin and the New-England Courant weekly newspaper in 2022, Samual Adams and the Boston Tea Party in 2023, John Adams as a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses in 2024, ending with Paul Revere and the Battle of Lexington and Concord in 2025, the one currently available.  Remaining stock of the prior year’s release was withdrawn when a new label became available.

As before, ordering is exclusively online through the Labels page on the show’s web site at Boston2026.org.  One unsigned sheet of 9 may be ordered free of charge, plus $5 postage and handling to USA addresses, or $10 to all other nations. Single signed sheets may be ordered for a $10 donation, plus the same postage and handling fees.

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