The Postal Service issued a 37-cent Love - Candy Hearts special stamp in a pressure-sensitive adhesive pane of twenty on January 14, 2004, at a ceremony at the New England Confectionery Company (NECCO), in Revere, Massachusetts. The stamp features candy hearts, one pink and one yellow, with words and a heart symbol printed on them to spell out "I love you." These little tokens of affection, bearing brief messages, have been a Valentine's Day tradition for more than a century. To help celebrate the issuance of the 2004 Love stamp, NECCO manufactured a special run of candy hearts with the I LOVE YOU message included in boxes with perennial favorites such as "Be Mine," "Marry Me" and "Cutie Pie." For the 2004 Love stamp design, artist Michael Osborne of San Francisco, Calif., illustrated two hearts -- one yellow, in the foreground, and one pink, slightly behind it -- and added in red the letter "I" and a heart symbol on the yellow candy and the word "YOU" on the pink candy to spell out "I love you." Osborne also illustrated the two colorful 2002 Love stamps, whose designs featured stylized block letters and a heart-design "V" spelling the word "LOVE." The first Love stamp was issued by the Postal Service in 1973 with a denomination of 8 cents and an iconic design by pop artist Robert Indiana. Since that time, Love stamps have featured a wide range of subjects, including flowers, animals, cherubs and love letters as well as abstract designs.
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