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Vintage 1998 Official USPS "Love Stamp" Collector's Album Wedding Book

$ 10.53

Availability: 61 in stock
  • Material: Cardboard
  • Format: Ring Binder
  • Type: Album
  • Style: Traditional
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Condition: like new; gently used to hold wedding photos and stored carefully in drawer
  • Brand: USPS

    Description

    Up for sale is a vintage 1998 Official USPS "Love Stamp" Collector's Album. The Postal Service's Love Stamp of 1999 graces the cover and the back of the album.
    The stamp that year was a romantic Victorian Design based on a greeting card attributed to an unknown German artist, circa 1895. Its background is derived from a chocolate or biscuit paper-lace box liner of American attribution, circa 1900. My daughter used this stamp to mail out her wedding invitations that year.
    As an appropriate connection, I purchased the book  . . . but did not use it as a stamp album . . . I removed the insert pages and used it to create my own personal snapshot photo album.
    These photos have now all been digitized so I no longer need the album. As you can see in the photos, I still have the original blank stamp-holding insert pages that came with the album. The album was made in the USA by Deluxe Craft Manufacturing, Chicago. It measures approximately 12 inches by 12 inches; its thickness is expandable and depends on the numbers of pages you have.
    The book serves as a meaningful celebratory gift. Might be used "snapshot holding" gift to a loving pair you know . . . or . . . it may be used as originally intended; to hold a collection you built (or are building) of the various "Love Stamps" issued by the United States Postal Services.
    Might be incorporated in many "sharing the love" occasions.  Engagements, weddings, anniversaries and births come to mind.