"The December Dilemma" puts its stamp on postal intrigue

"The December Dilemma" puts its stamp on postal intrigue

Disappointed in the Christmas Wreath and Candles issued in 1962, the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee-2 vowed, “to produce a fine art work so that the ridicule that was leveled at the Post Office Department and the Committee for the 1962 design would not develop again.” Norman Todhunter, in contact with hundreds of commercial artists, offered to find talent to, “help in solving the problem of design.” For the first time, CSAC-2 developed an art…