FREE: Brand New USPS 10 Vintage Seed Packets Commemorative Forever Stamps & Cards w Envelopes

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Brand New USPS 10 Vintage Seed Packets Commemorative Forever Stamps & Cards w Envelopes

Highly Collectible Unique Set
This package is RARE and not sold any longer
Collect/Write/Send/Keep/Share
Mint Condition
Each card is different from the other!
Each card measures 4 X 5 inches
and has a matching cream colored envelope

Brand New in Package from a non smoking home
Please Note: Package was OPENED in order to take photos
Proudly made in the U.S.A.

Winner gets:

10 cards with matching envelopes
10 matching Forever stamps

Seed packet art depicts the utmost in floral perfection,” said dedicating official and Postal Service Philadelphia Metropolitan District Manager Chu Falling Star. “At the turn of the early 1900s, packets like those displayed on the stamps encouraged Americans to create the perfect floral garden. The Postal Service’s release of these stamps reminds us about the beauty flowers add to our lives and signals the arrival of spring.”

Created using chromolithography — a process that replaced hand-tinted lithographs and allowed for inexpensive multi-color prints — the illustrations originally graced the fronts of flower seed packets printed between 1910 and 1920.

Each of the 10 stamps depicts blossoms of one variety of flower — a trio of cosmos in delicate white, pink, and red; stalks of yellow, pink and coral digitalis; bright yellow primrose flowers with orange centers; a vibrant orange calendula; white, pink and blue aster blooms; two shades of pinks (dianthus), one pale, one dark; linum blossoms in a rich red; white drifts of alyssum; clusters of phlox in red, pink and purple; and pale pink, subtle yellow, and muted orange-red zinnia flowers.

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