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Saturday: Tulsan's design on U.S. postal stamp

Lisa Regan with a sculpture of a menorah she made similar to one depicted on the new U.S. stamp commemorating Hanukkah. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa World

By BILL SHERMAN World Staff Writer
Published: 11/27/2009 1:29 PM
Last Modified: 11/27/2009 1:31 PM

The U.S. Postal Service’s first new Hanukkah stamp in five years depicts a menorah made by a Tulsa metal sculptress.

“It was really a beautiful, serendipitous thing,” said Lisa Regan, founder of the Garden Deva Sculpture Co., 317 S. Trenton Ave.

Ira Wexler, a Washington, D.C.-area photographer, contacted Regan two years ago about making a menorah that he could photograph for a postage stamp.

His wife had seen her work in a store in Maryland and suggested he call her.

She made the small steel and copper nine-candle candelabra according to his specifications in about two months, and sent it to him. Wexler told her there was no guarantee it would be selected for the stamp.

A year and half later she learned her menorah was selected.

The Postal Service printed 35 million 44-cent Hanukkah stamps, only the third U.S. stamp to commemorate the Jewish holiday, which begins Dec. 11. The first Hanukkah stamp came out in 1996, and the second in 2004.

For more, read Saturday's Tulsa World.

By BILL SHERMAN World Staff Writer

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