Add cheerful floral romance and colorful spring charm to your letters with these vintage unused "Love Bouquet" postage stamps from the USPS "Love" series! Featuring a hand offering a vibrant bouquet of colorful spring flowers against a warm yellow-gold background, this romantic design is perfect for adding floral imagery, garden color, artistic texture, and classic love symbolism to save-the-dates, wedding invitations, thank you cards, bridal shower invitations, engagement announcements, anniversary mailings, Valentine cards, and other snail mail. In pristine mint condition and valid for current postage use, each stamp holds a face value of 37-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 "Love Bouquet" 37-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.

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STAMP INFORMATION:

• Stamp Name: Love Bouquet
• Stamp Series: Love
• Year Issued: 2005
• Face Value: 37-cents (USD) per stamp
• Topic(s): Love Bouquet, Spring Flowers, Flower Bouquet, Hand-Held Bouquet, Flowers, Floral Art, Botanical Design, Chalk Pastel Art, Love, Romance, Wedding, Valentine’s Day, USPS Love Series, USPS Special Stamps
• Color(s): Yellow, Gold, Natural, Pink, Red, Purple, Blue, Green, White, Multicolored
• Mailing Occasions: Wedding Invitations, Save-the-Dates, Floral Weddings, Garden Weddings, Spring Weddings, Colorful Weddings, Bridal Shower Invitations, Engagement Announcements, Anniversary Cards, Valentine Mailings, Birthday Cards, Thank You Notes, Everyday Correspondence
• Printing Method: Photogravure
• Scott Number: 3898
• Adhesion Type: Self-Adhesive
• Stamp Size: 30 x 23 mm / 1.19 × 0.91 in
• Condition: Genuine Unused USPS Postage Stamps, Ready to Use for USPS Mailings, Mint Condition

STAMP DESCRIPTION & HISTORY: The 2005 Love Bouquet stamp was issued as part of the USPS Love series and features a hand extending a colorful bouquet of spring flowers against a warm yellow-gold background. Artist Vivienne Flesher created the artwork using chalk pastels, while Derry Noyes served as designer, art director, and typographer. Issued on February 18, 2005, in Atlanta, Georgia, the 37-cent stamp was produced by Avery Dennison using gravure printing and released in a self-adhesive convertible booklet of 20. Its combination of expressive floral artwork, warm color, and the intimate gesture of giving flowers makes it a particularly natural choice for wedding invitations, romantic correspondence, and celebratory mail within the Love series.

FLOWER DESCRIPTION: The Love Bouquet design presents a mixed arrangement of colorful spring flowers rather than botanically identified individual species. Rendered in soft chalk pastels, the bouquet combines varied flower shapes and bright seasonal colors to create a lively, painterly composition. The hand offering the flowers reinforces the idea of flowers as a personal gift, while the warm yellow-gold background gives the design a cheerful and welcoming quality especially well suited to spring weddings, garden celebrations, floral invitation suites, birthdays, and thank you notes.

STAMP MEANING & SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE: The Love Bouquet design carries themes of affection, generosity, beauty, gratitude, celebration, growth, and love expressed through giving. A bouquet offered by hand can be interpreted as a gesture of care and personal connection, while spring flowers evoke renewal, optimism, and new beginnings. These themes make the stamp especially meaningful for weddings, engagements, bridal showers, anniversaries, thank you notes, and correspondence celebrating important relationships and milestones.

STAMP SERIES HISTORY: The USPS Love series began in 1973 with Robert Indiana’s iconic LOVE design and developed into one of the Postal Service’s most recognizable recurring themes for romantic and celebratory correspondence. Flowers have appeared repeatedly throughout the Love series, including floral lettering, roses, floral hearts, and other botanical designs. The 2005 Love Bouquet issue returned flowers to center stage with Vivienne Flesher’s chalk-pastel image of a hand offering a colorful spring bouquet. The design continued the series tradition of using familiar symbols of affection in ways suited not only to Valentine’s Day, but also weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, and other meaningful mail.

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: 1.19 in.
Height: 0.01 in.
Width: 0.91 in.
Weight: 0.01 lbs.