USPS issued the Allen Toussaint Forever stamp on January 30, 2025. The correct first name is Allen, not Alan, and the issue date is not 2022.
Verified postal identity
The stamp is the 48th entry in the Black Heritage series and carries ordinary Forever service. Use its direct USPS issue record for format and design credits.
Name consistency
Allen Toussaint’s name should be identical in the title, headings, body, alt text and structured data. Search variants with ‘Alan’ are spelling errors, not a separate person.
Music context
Biographical context should explain why the New Orleans musician was commemorated without inventing motives, quotations or popularity rankings.
Collecting boundary
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Allen Toussaint stamp format and design credits
USPS issued the Allen Toussaint Forever stamp in New Orleans on January 30, 2025. It is the 48th Black Heritage stamp, uses one design and was sold in a pressure-sensitive adhesive pane of 20. The design uses Bill Tompkins’s 2007 New York photograph of Toussaint seated at a piano; Ethel Kessler was the designer. The subject’s first name is Allen—“Alan Toussaint” is a search misspelling, not a separate stamp.