Honour the arrival of the Year of the Pig with this Official First Day Cover featuring a corner set of four Permanent™ domestic stamps.

The corner set on this Official First Day Cover is the lower right. It is embossed and accented with gold foil. On the border is a traditional blessing in calligraphy by Albert Ng, O.Ont. The message reads “Celestial phenomena portending peace and prosperity.” The stamps are cancelled in Markham, Ontario.

The stamp design is inspired by Zhu Bajie, a colourful character from the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West. Banished from a powerful position in Heaven, he is reborn into the mortal world as Pigsy, a half-human, half-pig creature. On the stamp, a proud Pigsy is clad in heavenly armour as he carries an enormous muck rake. On the Official First Day Cover, a seated Pigsy is shown dressed in more modest attire.

The Year of the Pig begins February 5, 2019, and ends on January 24, 2020. While the pig is the twelfth and final animal in the Chinese Lunar calendar, this is Canada Post’s eleventh Lunar New Year issue. Our series concludes in January 2020, with the arrival of the Year of the Rat.

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Year of the Pig: Official First Day Cover- lower right corner stamp