USA Personalized Postage stamps for sale
There are now 5 companies offering US "personalized postage stamps". These are valid postage stamps that you can design (subject to certain limitations) and order in a variety of denominations for the new postage rates in effect starting in May 2009 (generally 28¢, 44¢, and other values as well right up to $4.95 for priority mail).
When ordering these stamps from stamps.com, endicia.com, yourstamps.com, stampexpressions.com or zazzle.com, you are required to order at least a full sheet of stamps (20 stamps per sheet). For example, the standard price for a sheet of 44¢ stamps is approx. $ 18.95 + $3.99 postage from the various vendors. Basically, you are spending over $23.00 for a sheet of stamps with a face value of $8.40.
The high "vanity" prices of these stamps is fine for those people that will use them for various purposes as actual postage, but for the casual stamp collector who only wants a single copy of these stamps for their collection, it can get to be expensive.
I have created personalized postage stamps from the 5 vendors for various projects that I have been working on for the past 4 years, however, I do have various quantities of left-over stamps. While I can of course use these as postage, I thought I'd make them available to others. Given the high cost of selling these on eBay, I have decided to offer my remaining stamps through this website, thus saving you money!
Below you will find the various personalized postage stamps which I have available (including quantities available). If purchasing, please do not enter more than the available quantity shown.
Browse through the listing below and choose the stamps you want to buy (use the "Add to Cart" button for each one). E-mail questions to: info @ stvincentstamps . com (remove the spaces; I have to do this to keep spamming at a minimum...).
Prices are based mostly on denominations. Generally the lower denominations (28¢, 44¢, etc) are fairly common, while the higher rates (for 2nd, 3rd, 4th ounce & priority mail rates) will be more difficult to find as fewer people ordered them.
Note: all the stamps below are "mint" (unused) and with full adhesive and fully valid for the postage amount indicated. Stamps from the "PhotoStamps" variety will be shipped directly on the original backing paper since there is sufficient room to cut between each stamp, however, the "YourStamps", "PictureItPostage" & "Zazzle" stamps will be sent on different backing paper since all stamps are physically next to each other on a sheet and can not be separated with the backing paper intact due to the "perforation" die-cutting. Some of the stamps do not scan all that well, so please keep that in mind when viewing the illustrations below. The real stamps are far superior than the scans shown below. The perforations on the real stamps are generally not visible when scanned, so I have added representative perforations around the stamps.
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1) Be sure to select your choices:
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Use the "Add to Cart" buttons below each stamp to add it to the shopping cart
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If you want to buy more than one copy of a particular stamp, you'll need to change the quantity within the shopping cart
2) Click on one of the options below to add postage & shipping to your order BEFORE you check-out:
Choose 1 of the following two options:
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International shipping ($2.50)
3) Optional US Postal Service insurance:
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Domestic (up to $100 coverage) or
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International Registration (up to $40 coverage)
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Note: uninsured items ship at your risk!
4) Choose the stamps you wish to purchase below by clicking on "Add to Cart" below the stamp image
5) When finished:
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Click here to finish the purchase and pay via PayPal (all major credit cards accepted):
Note: The available quantities shown below are approximate. I update the quantities after each order and when there are none left, I will remove the item from the listing (this is not a totally automated inventory system here...). Should you order a stamp and pay for it and I find out that it is actually not available, then I will refund your money back to your PayPal account.
Scenery
Fort Duvernette on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent (I took this picture in 1993; I visited St. Vincent again in 2007, but the fort was off-limits due to safety issues with falling rocks), $2.45
Qty available: 10
Zürich, Switzerland, $2.45
Tower Bridge, London (I took this picture in February 2000 while in London), $2.45
Qty available: 3
Tower Bridge, London (I took this picture in February 2000 while in London), $2.45
Death Valley (From a black & white negative that I took in 1990), $2.45
Qty available:11
Harlech Castle, Northern Wales (I visited this wonderful spot in 1986 while on a work assignment), $2.45
Qty available: 2
Appenzell, Switzerland (1960), $3.95
Qty available: SOLD OUT!
The Mustangs of Las Colinas (Irving, Texas, 1990), $2.45
Qty available: 7
Valley of Fire State Park (near Las Vegas, Nevada), $3.45
Qty available: 3
Still Life
Tomato, $2.95
Qty available: only 1 left!!
Tomato & Vase, $2.45
Qty available: 10
Apple & Headphones (I took this picture during in college in 1982), $ 1.95
Qty available: 13
Apple & Headphones (I took this picture in college in 1982, same picture as above, just a different stamps vendor), $2.45
Qty available: 15
Apple & Headphones (I took this picture in college in 1982), $3.95
Qty available: 5
Wooden Toy Car (it appears to be modelled after the Mercedes Silver Arrow racing cars from the 1930's), $1.95
Qty available: 9
Wooden Toy Car, $2.45
Qty available: 10
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, $2.45
Qty available: SOLD OUT!
Fuzzy Dice (and which car in mid-1970's didn't have these dangling from the rear-view mirror?), $2.45
Qty available: 4
Silberpfeil (Auto Union) toy car (modelled after the 1930's experimental streamlined silver arrow race car from Auto Union), $2.45
Qty available: 10
Automobiles
1977 Fiat 128 3p (I owned this car for 3 months while on an internship in Germany in 1984), $1.95
Qty available: 8
1977 Ford Taunus (I owned this car while living in Switzerland in 1986), $1.95
Qty available: 6
1971 Volkswagen Variant (this was the first car that our family owned and was bought in 1971 prior to moving to the USA; I still have the license plate that you see on this car in my office!), $ 2.95
Qty available: 5
1966 Chrysler Newport (I owned this heap of junk in 1983 while in college while working at a gas station; a customer abandoned the car and I bought it for $50 and sold it a week later for $150 to a bunch of kids needing it for the engine), $1.45
Qty available:12
1977 Dodge Monaco (a car I owned in Kentucky) $1.95
Qty available: 7
1992 Mercury Cougar LS (I owned this car from 1994 to 2004), $1.95
Qty available: 11
1973 Ford LTD (yup, that's me in the Amoco shirt, circa 1984), $1.95
Qty available: 10
1979 Chrysler Newport (picutre taken in 1990 in Irving, Texas right after I bought the car; had it until 1994 when hail damage forced me to sell it; it was replaced the by Mercury Cougar - see above), $2.45
Qty available: 8
1999 Volvo S-80, $2.45
Qty available:12
1971 Chevrolet Impala (picture was taken in 1984 near Holland, Michigan, on the shores of Lake Michigan; it was my brothers car), $2.45
Qty available: 8
1979 Ford Mustang LX (yup, got it stuck in the sand... while pulling donuts in a forrest park area near where I used to live; this picture is a still shot taken from a betamax video tape; the original footage was on Super8 film ), $1.95
Qty available: 9
1984 Ford Fiesta (my first rental car ever! Picture was taken in Luxembourg, September 1984 prior to the start of my internship in Germany), $1.95
Qty available: 8
1986 Ford Orion (a rental car that I had in Bridgnorth, England, Spring 1986 while on a work assisgnment; there is another stamp featuring Harlech Castle - see above somewhere...), $1.95
Qty available: 5
1989 Mercury Cougar (a rental car that I had from Seattle, the picture was taken in Canada, approx. summer of 1989; this car prompted me later to purchase a Mercury Cougar - see separate stamp above somewhere..), $1.95
Qty available: 5
1973 Pontiac Grand Safari (1980's in Michigan, in the same place that I got the Ford Mustang stuck...), $2.45
Qty available: 10
Motorcycles
1989 Honda Pacific Coast (PC800), I still own this bike after 19 years (and it looks pretty much like this too!, $2.45
Qty available: 6
1982 Honda Nighthawk 450SC (this was my first motorcycle that I got to ride, I bought it in 1984 and had it until about 1991 when I traded it for the Pacific Coast), $1.95
Qty available: 7
1970's Schwinn Typhoon bicycle (a similar one, but in red, was my first bicycle in 1971), $1.95
Qty available: 6
1975 Schwinn Continental bicycle (I had one similar to this, except with a rack on the back and used it to deliver newspapers as a teenager), $2.45
Qty available: 4
License Plates
AUDIGT is actually AUDI GT. Unfortunately Kentucky only allowed 6 characters total for their customized plates, so the car name and model name kind of ran together. Being as that I was in a southern state, I was once asked "what's an aww dig it". Say it slow, with a southern-like drawl... Honest!
Qty available: 20
NADA V8 ("Not a V8") Texas license plate (can be found on one of my cars), $2.95
Qty available: 7
GRUEZI (Texas) license plate (can be found on one of my cars), $2.45
Qty available: 2
GRUEZI ("Greetings" in Swiss) license plate, $2.95
Qty available: 15
GRUEZI ("Greetings" in Swiss) license plate, $2.95
Qty available: 12
GRUEZI ("Greetings" in Swiss) license plate, $7.95
Qty available: 2
Audi
My latest Audi, a 2003 A6 Avant model (along with the license NADA V8 that will be used with it. This is appropriate, since the car has a 3 liter V6 engine, "not a V8" ...)
Only $2.15 each (Qty available: 10)
Another version of the 2003 Audi A6 on a personalized stamp. Unlike Zazzle though, Stamps.com does not let you add text, however, they do feature funky frames...).
Only $2.15 each (Qty available: 10)
A picture of me at an Audi "Driving Event" at the Dallas Motor Speedway in fall of 2008. Audi had us test drive the new A4 (behind me) on the infield track. While probably not that legible, I am wearing a "Lord of the Rings" t-shirt that features the Audi "4 Rings" logo.
"Horch, ein Audi!" ("Listen, an Audi" in German), from a 1920's German advertising poster stamp, $2.95
Qty available: 10
Rare Audi 100 Coupe S (I too this picture in Switzerland in 1975; this particular model car was never officially imported into the USA, so it is very rare, even in Europe), $4.95
Qty available: 5
1972 Audi 100LS (with snow), $1.95
Qty available: 8
Rare original series PhotoStamp, 1972 Audi 100LS, catalog value is $20.00: my price only $9.95
Qty available: 3
Rare Audi 100 Coupe S (taken in Switzerland in 1975), $2.45
Qty available: 18
1972 Audi 100LS modified, $1.95
Qty available: 13
1979 Audi 5000S on Molas Pass, Colorado (1981), $1.95
Qty available: 7
Audi 100 Coupe S (picture taken in Switzerland in 1975), $2.45
Qty available: 10
Audi 100 Coupe S (picture taken in Switzerland in 1975), $ 3.95
Qty available: 6
1990 Audi 100 (picture taken in 2004, the car had 246,000 miles on it), $2.95
Qty available: 6
1990 Audi 100, $2.45
Qty available: 13
1973 Audi 100GL (the first car I ever owned, picture taken in 1978), $4.95
Qty available: 3
1972 Audi 100LS with "just a few mods", $1.95
Qty available: 15
1973 Audi 100GL "time to say goodbye" (I took this picture just shortly before driving the car to the salvage yard; I had stripped it for as many parts as I could, they were mostly interchangeable with the 1972 Audi 100LS that you see in the background), $0.95
Qty available: 8
1972 Audi 100LS, $1.95
Qty available: 15
1973 Audi 100GL with fog lamps, $1.65
Qty available: 15
1986 Audi Coupe GT (the first new car I ever bought), $2.25
Qty available: 4
1986 Audi Coupe GT with link to my Audi History website (hey, when you're done here, surf on over to www.freewebs.com/audiphilately) , $2.45
Qty available: 15
1986 Audi Coupe GT (I originally wanted the caption to state " '86 Audi Coupe GT", but at the time, Zazzle censored felt that this would be "advertising" for Audi - despite the fact that I told them it wasn't...), $2.95
Qty available: 4
1973 Audi 100GL at dusk, $2.45
Qty available: 7
1973 Audi 100GL 1st car, $ 2.95
Qty available: 5
Miscellaneous
1939 German Automobile Show poster showing Mercedes & Auto Union Silver Arrow race cars, $2.45
Qty available: 10
That's me on a chairlift in Switzerland (approx. summer 2000), $1.45
Qty available: 4
Me on the Jungfraujoch (one of the highest publicly accessible places in Europe), Switzerland, $1.75
Qty available: 2
Broken gas pump (I took this picture approx. in 1982 at an abandoned "Pure Gas" gas station on Pine River Road, north of St. Louis, Michigan), $2.45
Qty available: 5
Me in trunk of my Audi (this was part of a "self-portrait assignment in my college photography class), $1.95
Qty available: 5
"Speed is just a question of money, how fast do you want to go?" (this is a line from one of my all-time favorite movies; think you know it? -- send me an e-mail!) , $1.95
Qty available: 9
Me on a tricycle (my first wheels in 1961), $1.45
Qty available: 10
Pure Gas (an abandoned "Pure Gas" gas station on Pine River Rd, near St. Louis, Michigan, early 1980's), $2.45
Qty available:9
Boring, Oregon (...and that makes me wonder what life in Boring is like...), $2.45
Chloe the cat, $1.75
Speed is just a question of money (39c version), $2.45
Qty available: 15
This is a drawing that our son made of our family (to represent my wife, me, him and our cat). It was done on a magnetic doodling pad. Only $2.79
Caricature (London, 1986), $2.45
Qty available: 7
Texas Electric Railway RPO car, Plano, Texas; (this is one of the last remaining railroad post office cars in the country, nicely restored and can be visited in the museum in downtown Plano. $2.45
Qty available: 20
"Hubcap Reflections"; this is a photo of me and my son as reflected in the chromed hubcap of a 1950's Chevy Pickup. This type of image doesn't scan that well; the actual stamp looks much nicer!
Qty available: 5
Philatelic
Basler Taube (Basel Dove). This is unusual, since this design is of a postage stamp from the city of Basel (in Switzerland) from 1845. The companies producing these personalized stamps normally do NOT allow for a "stamp-on-stamp" design! The reason this one managed to sneak through was because the design does not look like a typical (modern) postage stamp, and the censors at Zazzle apparently are not stamp collectors... $2.45
Qty available: 9
MCSC logo, $1.45
Qty available: 10
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41c version of the above stamp also available: Qty available: 10, MCSC logo with blue back ground, $1.45
MCSC 2006 EXPO, $1.45
Qty available: SOLD OUT !
MCSC 2007 EXPO, $1.45
Qty available: SOLD OUT!
MCSC 2007 EXPO, $1.45
Qty available: SOLD OUT !
Mid-Cities Stamp Club 2008 EXPO, $ 1.45
Mid-Cities Stamp Club logo on a PhotoStamp
Qty available: 10, also an older 41c version of this with a blue border is available also: ($1.60, 10x available)
Switzerland
Bus #34 (Switzerland, 1960's), $2.45
Qty available: 8
Touring Club de Suisse (TCS) grill emblem, $2.45 (if you lived in Switzerland in the 1960's & 1970's and you were a member of the TCS, you would get a nice medal for your car - to be mounted on the grill).
Qty available: 1
CH (Switzerland) bumper sticker, $ 1.95 (in Europe, all countries that drive across borders are to have a country identifyer on their bumper, trunk lid or rear window).
Qty available: 2
Click here when you have finished adding stamps from the above listings to your cart. You can then proceed to check out; be sure to add the appropriate shipping amount to the cart first (see links at top). Once you complete your PayPal check-out, I will be notified and will ship your stamps (generally within one day). Many thanks for your purchase!
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