Add fresh botanical beauty and graceful woodland charm to your letters with these vintage unused “Yellow Poplar” postage stamps from the "Flowering Trees" series! This elegant commemorative design is perfect for adding tulip-shaped blossoms, green-and-yellow floral detail, Eastern and Midwestern nature, garden style, and classic botanical imagery 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 Yellow Poplar 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: Yellow Poplar
• Stamp Series: Flowering Trees
• Year Issued: 1998
• Face Value: 32-cents (USD) per stamp
• Topic(s): Yellow Poplar, Tulip Tree, Tulip Poplar, Liriodendron tulipifera, Flowering Trees, Tulip-Shaped Flowers, Botanical Art, Yellow Flowers, Green Flowers, Eastern Forests, Midwest Flora, Trees, Nature, Garden, Floral, USPS Commemorative Stamps
• Color(s): Green, Yellow, Orange, Brown, Black, Multicolored
• Mailing Occasions: Wedding Invitations, Save-the-Dates, Spring Weddings, Garden Weddings, Floral Weddings, Botanical Weddings, Woodland Weddings, Midwest Weddings, Bridal Shower Invitations, Graduation Announcements, Thank You Notes, Nature Correspondence, Everyday Correspondence
• Printing Method: Offset, Microprint
• Scott Number: 3195
• 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 Yellow Poplar 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 3195 features the Yellow Poplar, Liriodendron tulipifera, more commonly known as the tulip tree or tulip poplar, shown with its distinctive flowers, leaves, stems, and fruit in the style of a traditional botanical print. Artist John Dawson created the original artwork, with Howard Paine overseeing the design. Despite its common name, the Yellow Poplar is not a true poplar but a member of the magnolia family. It is native to the eastern United States and parts of the Midwest and is known as one of the tallest native hardwood trees in the region. 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: Yellow Poplar flowers are large, tulip-shaped blooms ranging from yellow-green to greenish white, often marked by a vivid orange band near the base of the petals. The blossoms appear high in the canopy and provide nectar for bees, while the tree’s broad green leaves turn yellow and orange in autumn. Their unusual shape and fresh green, yellow, and orange palette give the stamp a distinctive garden and woodland character that works beautifully for spring weddings, botanical invitations, nature-inspired stationery, and elegant floral correspondence.

STAMP MEANING & SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE: The Yellow Poplar carries themes of growth, strength, renewal, resilience, abundance, vitality, and reaching upward toward new possibilities. As a tall and enduring forest tree with striking spring flowers, it can symbolize both strong foundations and continued growth. This makes the stamp especially meaningful for wedding invitations, save-the-dates, graduations, thank you notes, and other correspondence celebrating new chapters, lasting relationships, personal achievement, and the 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.