Add elegant woodland beauty and classic botanical charm to your letters with these vintage unused “Pacific Dogwood” postage stamps from the "Flowering Trees" series! This graceful commemorative design is perfect for adding white blossoms, Western forest imagery, California and Pacific Northwest nature, garden style, and romantic botanical detail to save-the-dates, wedding invitations, thank you cards, graduation announcements, spring mailings, floral correspondence, and other snail mail. In pristine mint condition and valid for current postage use, each stamp holds a face value of 32-cents. These authentic USPS postage stamps are suitable for current mailing when used with the total required postage based on the weight of your mailing.

Purchase includes a total of TEN (10) mint condition Pacific Dogwood 32-cent postage stamps shown in the product listing photos. These are NOT forever stamps — you must combine additional postage with this stamp to mail your correspondence according to current USPS postage rate requirements.

STAMP INFORMATION:

• Stamp Name: Pacific Dogwood
• Stamp Series: Flowering Trees
• Year Issued: 1998
• Face Value: 32-cents (USD) per stamp
• Topic(s): Pacific Dogwood, Western Flowering Dogwood, Cornus nuttallii, Flowering Trees, Dogwood Blossoms, Botanical Art, White Flowers, Western Flora, California Flora, Pacific Northwest, Trees, Forests, Nature, Garden, Floral, USPS Commemorative Stamps
• Color(s): White, Green, Red, Yellow, Brown, Black, Multicolored
• Mailing Occasions: Wedding Invitations, Save-the-Dates, Spring Weddings, Garden Weddings, Floral Weddings, Botanical Weddings, California Weddings, Pacific Northwest Weddings, Woodland Weddings, Bridal Shower Invitations, Graduation Announcements, Thank You Notes, Nature Correspondence, Everyday Correspondence
• Printing Method: Offset, Microprint
• Scott Number: 3197
• Adhesion Type: Self-Adhesive
• Stamp Size: 40 x 32 mm / 1.57 × 1.26 in
• Condition: Genuine Unused USPS Postage Stamps, Ready to Use for USPS Mailings, Mint Condition

STAMP DESCRIPTION & HISTORY: The 1998 Pacific Dogwood stamp was issued as part of the USPS Flowering Trees series, a five-stamp commemorative issue celebrating flowering trees associated with different regions of North America. Scott 3197 features the Pacific Dogwood, Cornus nuttallii, shown with its distinctive white floral bracts, green leaves, branches, and red fruit in the style of a traditional botanical print. Artist John Dawson created the original artwork, with Howard Paine serving as USPS art director. The Pacific Dogwood grows in moist forests, river bottomlands, and mountain slopes of the western United States, including California, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Issued on March 19, 1998, in New York, New York, the Flowering Trees stamps brought botanical art, regional nature, and springtime beauty together in a graceful USPS commemorative format.

FLOWER DESCRIPTION: Pacific Dogwood flowers are surrounded by four to six large white bracts that resemble petals and create the tree’s striking floral display. The small true flowers appear in clustered centers, while the white bracts stand out beautifully against fresh green foliage. Pacific Dogwoods typically bloom in spring and may flower again later in the season, while their red fruit and colorful autumn foliage add additional seasonal beauty. Their luminous white blossoms make this stamp especially suited to white weddings, woodland celebrations, garden invitations, botanical stationery, and nature-inspired correspondence.

STAMP MEANING & SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE: The Pacific Dogwood carries themes of renewal, grace, purity, resilience, natural beauty, strength, and new beginnings. Its bright white blossoms emerging among green forest foliage make this stamp especially meaningful for wedding invitations, save-the-dates, bridal showers, thank you notes, and correspondence celebrating devotion, hope, and a fresh chapter in life. As vintage postage, it brings a refined woodland elegance to mailings inspired by gardens, forests, California, the Pacific Northwest, and the enduring beauty of nature.

STAMP SERIES HISTORY: The Flowering Trees series was issued by the USPS in 1998 as a five-stamp commemorative set featuring flowering trees associated with different regions of North America. The set includes Southern Magnolia, Blue Paloverde, Yellow Poplar, Prairie Crab Apple, and Pacific Dogwood. Artist John Dawson created the original paintings in the style of old-fashioned botanical prints, with each stamp showing blossoms, leaves, stems, fruit, and identifying botanical details. Printed by the Banknote Corporation of America using offset printing and microprinting, the series remains especially appealing for collectors of flowers, trees, gardens, regional nature, botanical illustration, and elegant vintage postage.

GENUINE USPS POSTAGE: These unused vintage postage stamps are perfectly valid for use as current postage for mailing with USPS as long as you use an adequate amount of additional postage to achieve standard postage rates according to the weight of your mailing. Check current postage rates on the USPS website.

PROCESSING & SHIPPING: Orders are typically processed and shipped within 1-3 business days of placing your order. All orders are shipped from California — please allow additional time for transit.

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TELL YOUR STORY IN STAMPS: We’ve worked with hundreds of couples and their stationers to custom design highly stylized personalized postage sets based on our customer’s life stories. We can help you curate personalized vintage postage sets to commemorate your save-the-date, wedding, shower, announcement, and other special occasions in a truly unique fashion. Drawing on our encyclopedic knowledge of every stamp ever issued by the USPS, and sourcing from our extensive inventory of collectable unused vintage stamps, we’ll help you tell your unique story in stamps!

ABOUT HERITAGE POST HOUSE: Jennifer Kramer is the founder of Heritage Post House, a boutique vintage postage house located in Northern California. Jennifer sources the most beautiful unused vintage postage stamps ever issued by USPS and artfully arranges them into curated postage sets that are sure to add a special touch to your invitations, announcements, and special mailings. In addition to creating pre-arranged postage sets, Jennifer also works with couples (and their stationers) to create one-of-a-kind custom postage arrangements for wedding invitations, save the dates, and other special occasions.

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Product Specifications

Length: 1.57 in.
Height: 0.01 in.
Width: 1.26 in.
Weight: 0.01 lbs.