Love Mail

The Love stamp at the top was designed by Robert Indiana. It’s based on a popular picture designed by him in the 1960s. It was first made as a simple postcard he sent friends. A year later, the Museum of Modern Art in New York asked him to design a Christmas card for them to sell at their giftshop. He used the same design. It was the most popular card they ever sold.

It became an iconic modern art image. Over the next few years Indiana made a few scultures of it that were displayed around the world. In 1975, the U.S. Postal Service commissioned Indiana to make the stamp you see here. They printed and sold over four-hundred twenty-five million of them for the next couple of years.

Note

These stamps of the U.S. Postal Service are boring to me. I imagine the people who work at the Post Office appreciate them. I’m grateful for the work they do, so it’s good there are some stamps that honor them. Incidentally, the back of each stamp has text describing the work depicted on the stamp. Maybe I’ll flip the stamps over and scan the page again to show both sides.

Contains 11 spots: own 11 – 11 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot	own	catalog	subject	description
1.1	✓	1475	Love Robert Indiana	8c (jan 1973) comm., multicolor
2.1	✓	1489	Stamp Counter	8c (apr 1973) definitive, multicolor
2.2	✓	1490	Mail Collection	8c (apr 1973) definitive, multicolor
2.3	✓	1491	Conveyor Belt	8c (apr 1973) definitive, multicolor
2.4	✓	1492	Parcel Post Sorting	8c (apr 1973) definitive, multicolor
3.1	✓	1493	Mail Canceling	8c (apr 1973) definitive, multicolor
3.2	✓	1494	Manual Letter Routing	8c (apr 1973) definitive, multicolor
3.3	✓	1495	Electronic Letter Routing	8c (apr 1973) definitive, multicolor
3.4	✓	1496	Loading Mail on a Truck	8c (apr 1973) definitive, multicolor
4.1	✓	1497	Letter Carrier	8c (apr 1973) definitive, multicolor
4.2	✓	1498	Rural Mail Delivery	8c (apr 1973) definitive, multicolor

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.