New US Issues - You Gotta Be Kidding Me!

You mentioned Budwieser there Mod. I think another good idea would be for Coors Light with the Silver ullet train running across the stamp, maybe about the size of the Mars rover stamp.

21 Pizza Pie
22 Cocoa Krispies
23 cars that get 100 miles per gallon
24 Uncle Fester
25 The guy who invented the Smilies
26 Phil B Barney Fife
27 Watermellon.. Has the same effects as Viagra.. Google it
if you dont believe me
28 The next Post Master General who bans self adhesive stamps
29 Dolly Parton, I dont care if she is still alive, I want to see
Some US wallpaper stamps.
30 Whoever put Stamp Community together

I just picked up a sheet about 20 min. ago and I must say in person they are not too bad as a sheet now individually I have to agree with Mod,




I think my favorite is the freaky molded plywood sculpture in the lower left hand corner. Also looking at the back of the sheet you learn that another thing that makes these furniture pieces so unique is that they where designed in the mid 40's to late late 50's which IMHO put's most of it way before it's design time because you really didn't see much of this design until the late 60's early to mid 70's. Here's to an actually well done sheet once I have seen it in my hand.

Meostamps,,its summer time for the yearly cleanning..we scrape the gum and the snot off the bottoms of the desks and stack them 3 high in the hall while the classroom floors are stripped and waxed !!

Desert Jim had the best idea. I can see it now . . . . an issue of 50 different state Victoria's Secret models - or better yet, 50 panes of 20 different poses/outfits!

Now that I would collect!



If my wife didn't find out.

lol

Bobgggg & the rest of the SCF:




My apartment in almost completely furnished with Ikea products.

As for the non-soaking U.S. stamps, it's a pain for the modern U.S. air mail stamps I collect. It looks like the 72-cent issue is a poor soaker. I'll just clip the next one close, so it will go into my White Ace U.S. air Mail album.

Don't like the modern U.S. issues? Then do like my buddy, Phil B., and collect Canada. The self-adhesives soak off nicely, a conservative stamp issuing policy, a few souvenir sheets are issued, beautiful stamps, and some of the stamps are still engraved (like the current joint-issue with France honouring the 400th anniversary of the Founding of Quebec.)

David

Now thats a plug ! I have never been much of a U.S. collector..when I started collecting the U.S. was issuing blah commemoratives..usually either green or purple..and the approval houses were sending beautiful multicolored French colony stamps for 2 or 3 cents each...no contest !!

I agree with leaving modern U.S. collecting to others. I'll stick with Germany for modern issues although they also have a touch of the same stampissueitis that most other countries have!

Found an Aussie stamp on a similar theme...



Steve

Cool looking stamp there Steve. I am kind of partial to unique furnishings. I don't own anything uniqe but I sure love to look at it.

Yikes, what won't they put on a stamp? I agree that they do look pretty cool all together...it's kinda like some sort of modern art. As individuals...eh...not so much.

i kind of like the stacked chairs stamp on the top row. it reminds me of the chairs my elementary school used.

IMHO I still believe the subject stinks. I did buy my first Baseball panes yesterday, and I'm looking forward to the Alzheimer's issue later this year also.

About the Eames set of stamps, although I wouldn't buy a sheet for my collection, I would certainly use them for postage as opposed to a definitive and if any came my way on a letter to me I would collect it and mount it. I view commemorative stamps as reflection of the culture producing it as well as the method of production. I feel certain that many early US commems were criticised in the same manner when they were produced. As far as the Rawlin's stamp, I have been to her place and it is pretty much as she left it when she relocated to St. Augustine. It is a 70 acre working farm and it is interesting to see how old Florida homesteads were developed and maintained. I think that the commemorative program is a refelction of the country and the times.
Joel