1970’s Postal Stamps
We weighed our wedding invitation today and found that is was… 2.10 ounces. A 2 ounce stamp = .63 cents of postage. Anything over 2 ounces a .87 cent stamp. So much for using the beautiful, pastel .63 cent “wedding” stamps. The post office only sells one .87 cent stamp. Of a scientist.
Visted zazzle.com and stamps.com which were too expensive at a $1.30 a stamp for the face value of .87 cents. Six hours later I’m still looking and now am desperate for 1970s stamps. A selction below:
I was trying to explain to the budding stamp obsession/appeal to Tim: is it that stamps somehow represent our collective best intentions in less than a cubic inch? And, they are just beautiful, affordable design in our every day lives. To be continued…
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August 28th, 2007 22:39
[…] I bought the gold frog at Swallow the first year I lived in NY and hadn’t figured out how to merge my work life and my creative life. The stamp T. gave me when we decided that my taking the job in NY was the right thing, even it meant living apart. The dish with clips was my great grandmother’s and the paperweight next to it was my grandmother’s. The tiny “stamps” box was given to me by my mother in-law after I blogged it here. And the tiny red chair I bought at an antiques store on the cape last week. I was inspired over vacation to finish a project that has been on the back burner for years: framing my favorite vintage bits in tiny frames. Here they are! I’m really pleased with how they came out. The top two are vintage 6 cent US postal stamps, the second two are vintage Wills cigarette cards from the 1930s from New Zealand and the last row is another vintage stamp and my personal favorite, two elephant chromos from the Paris flea market! They are all up for sale on Etsy so tell your friends and start your own desk-scape! Tag: Design Scout […]
January 29th, 2008 16:35
[…] is it about vintage stamps? and the number eight? I love the tiny images, so colorful, such a little bit of color and charm […]