U.S. 3949-52, Holiday Cookies, 2005 Christmas Stamps, Pane/20, VF, MNH. Holiday Cookies, 2005 Christmas Stamps, pane of 20. Twenty (20) 37 cent stamps celebrating the 2005 Christmas season. Issued Oct 20, 2005. Self-Adhesive.

The 2005 winter holiday season was celebrated with four stamps featuring festively decorated cookies. Two snowmen (3949), two elves (one sugar cookie and one made of gingerbread)(3950), an angel (3951), and Santa Claus(3952).

Photographer Sally Andersen-Bruce of New Milford, CT, recruited a team of experts-including Tommy Simpson, of Washington, CT (who also made the cookie molds); Emily Diffrient-Crumpton, of Austin, TX; and Rebecca Vermilyea, of Bethlehem, CT-to help bake and decorate the charming cookies shown on these stamps.