I love stamps. So did my father! My dad, George, was born in 1946. began collecting stamps when he was quite young. He would put ‘like stamps’ into little envelopes and have one representative stamp on the outside of the envelope. He’d often write little notes to himself on the back of the envelope. One envelope has his 1961 resolutions which include to ‘kiss a girl’. Just the thing I can see his fourteen-year-old self dreaming of!
The 5 cent documentary series of 1898 is not a “postage” stamp. This wasn’t put on an envelope to mail a letter to a friend. Instead, documentary stamps were used to signify something tax-related was paid for. So if you bought tobacco, for example, the stamp would show you paid the fee for it.
The stamp is in lilac / purple. It shows a battleship.
When I opened the little envelope for this stamp there were a few of the stamps stuck together. I gently soaked them in warm water for a few minutes until they separated. Then I tried them on a paper towel. I hope that was OK. Please let me know if you’d like to see any other photos or get any other information.
Prices on the web seem to range from $2.20 to $4.99 depending on quality, including shipping.
I have several of these, and I’ll start listing them in my ebay account.
https://www.ebay.com/str/lisasheaorigami
