July 1st is National Postage Stamp Day! This day commemorates when the first US stamp was issued on this day in 1847. Up until then, people would send a mailed item and the receiver would pay when it arrived. By 1855, the postage stamp became required for all mail.
In honor of today, Howard letterpress printed two cuts that to relate to postage stamps, and that would be in cases where postage isn’t required. In the print, the one on the right states, “NON-PROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID SACRAMENTO, CA PERMIT NO. 393.” The one on the left comes from Donna from Kentucky and states, “No Postage Stamp
Necessary If Mailed in the United States.” This was a common tag on old hotel keys. This was printed with black rubber base ink using our Washington hand press.
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