S & H Stamps

Hi all

I tried to find the original thread on these stamps, but, to no avail. I wanted to add to his / her thread.

Just a few months ago, I was given a small collection of S&H green stamps.

The pocket book size was published with the same front cover but had different back covers. The second book, more a pamphlet size, is the only one I have so, I am not sure if they were published in different formats or not?

There are a variety of different S&H green stamps in both booklets.

I have scanned them here so show variations.

Chimo

Bujutsu

My mother collected these when I was a child, and she turned them in for goods or discounts, I don't recall which. I don't believe they have any collectibility though.

Actually, Roland Essig has an exhibit on S&H Green Stamps. He wrote an article about them for the Wisconsin Federation of Stamp Clubs' newsletter which can be found here:

http://www.wfscstamps.org/ATFP/ATFP-Mar2013.pdf

Part of his exhibit was also just featured in The American Stamp Dealer and Collector magazine.

Anything is collectible ... including S&H Green Stamps!

A bit of trivia I found when looking this up on the internet is that the now-defunct Department Store Hens & Kelly was once owned by Sperry & Hutchinson Co. (the S&H Green Stamp people). That helps to explain why S&H Green Stamp Redemption Centers were once located in Hens & Kelly Stores, according to the booklet scanned above.

By the way, here's another specimen of an S&H Green Stamp that I have that's not shown in the books scanned earlier:

I remember S&H Green Stamps and I helped my mother collect them (tongue would turn green & numb after licking stamps). I grew up in Chicago & Wieboldt's Department Store had a separate area for redeeming the completed books. As a child I got a new bedspread, cooking items, glass canisters (which I still have) & much more. That's my shared trip down memory lane.
You have quite a find Bujutsu!
The referenced article is great, too.
Google S&H Green Stamps & you'll find a Wikipedia entry & a whole lot more.
You might try some garage sales, church rummage sales or collectibles shops.
Have fun!

Bujutsu, here is the thread that contains about a dozen older types of S&H and other trading stamps:

https://www.stampcommunity.org/topi...31722#270062

I remember those when I was a little guy. My folks would let us put the stamps in those books and they would share the bounty with us. Every market and gas station had those or either Blue Chip stamps.

Hi Bujutsu,

We used to have these Green Shield Stamps here in Britain. Way, way back when we had proper buses.

Terry

My parents collected those in the 1960s. I have a few of the leftovers. They redeemed a lot of them for midcentury patio furniture. What first comes to mind though is a parody of the song Greensleeves that went something like "Green stamps were all she saved and she put the into her green stamp book".

Oh my goodness! I sooo remember licking and sticking my brains out with those S&H "greenstamp" books! I love them if only for the memories! Thank you for showing them!

Thanks all for your input and links etc.

Though I am Canadian, I have heard of the "Green Shield" stamps before but have never seen hardly any of them.

A chain grocery store here in Canada used to have stamps similar to these too. If I remember correctly, it was Loblaws. There were also the "Lucky Green" stamps too when I was a kid.

I wish I was smart enough then to have collected them.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Bujutsu -- this was in today's paper. Thought you would appreciate...

LOL - nice one Kirk

Chimo

Bujutsu

Blue Chip Stamps were another company similar to the green stamps. As kids we used to in the 1960 steal the stamps from parents desk and take to the trading store to turn in for Juicy Fruit or Spearmint gum packs. I also have pictures here of another kind of green stamps I have a book of.

wiki blue chip stamps mentions green stamps as competitors (couldn't snag link)look up on google:

ebay s&h green stamps
http://www.ebay.com/bhp/s-h-green-stamps

Besides Green Shield stamps, us Brits also used to get Co-Op stamps when using the Co-op supermarkets. The tills used to spit out a string of them (like coil stamps, I guess!) and they'd go in a savings book.

I remember my mom saving and using them in stores too. She had a book but kept them loose. It seems I remember that for different purchases she'd use different numbers of them. When I sold my parents house in 2004, for some reasom I didn't give tem a thought and just pitched them. I feel stupid.

Don't know why I didn't keep them. I kept my dad's WWII ration stamps...

ed.- One of the books above says they had been used since 1896. I wonder when and why they stopped using them.

Eagle Stamps too. By the May Co. My mom used them whenever she went to Famous Barr. Famous Barr had it's headquarters in St. Louis.


-IBFS