Add soft spring beauty and botanical charm to your letters with these vintage unused “Prairie Crab Apple” postage stamps from the "Flowering Trees" series! This delicate commemorative design is perfect for adding flowering tree imagery, pink-and-white blossoms, garden style, Midwest nature, 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 Prairie Crab Apple 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: Prairie Crab Apple
• Stamp Series: Flowering Trees
• Year Issued: 1998
• Face Value: 32-cents (USD) per stamp
• Topic(s): Prairie Crab Apple, Prairie Crabapple, Flowering Trees, Crab Apple Tree, Apple Blossom, Botanical Art, Spring Flowers, Pink Flowers, White Flowers, Midwest Flora, Trees, Nature, Garden, Floral, USPS Commemorative Stamps
• Color(s): Pink, White, Green, Brown, Yellow, Black, Multicolored
• Mailing Occasions: Wedding Invitations, Save-the-Dates, Spring Weddings, Garden Weddings, Floral Weddings, Botanical Weddings, Midwest Weddings, Bridal Shower Invitations, Graduation Announcements, Thank You Notes, Nature Correspondence, Everyday Correspondence
• Printing Method: Offset, Microprint
• Scott Number: 3196
• 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 Prairie Crab Apple 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 3196 features the Prairie Crab Apple, also known as the Iowa crab apple, shown with its blossoms, leaves, branch detail, and 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 Prairie Crab Apple is especially associated with the prairies, pastures, woodland openings, riverbanks, and streams of the Midwest, where its fragrant spring blossoms and small fruit make it both ornamental and ecologically valuable. 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: Prairie Crab Apple blossoms open in spring from deep pink buds into soft pink or white flowers, often appearing in fragrant clusters along the branches. Their delicate petals, fresh green leaves, and small fruit give the tree a romantic seasonal character that works beautifully for spring weddings, garden invitations, floral stationery, and nature-inspired correspondence. The blossoms suggest renewal, sweetness, fertility, and the return of warmth after winter.

STAMP MEANING & SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE: The Prairie Crab Apple carries themes of renewal, abundance, love, sweetness, fertility, resilience, and the beauty of new beginnings. Its spring blossoms make this stamp especially meaningful for wedding invitations, save-the-dates, bridal showers, thank you notes, and other correspondence celebrating growth, devotion, and a fresh chapter in life. As vintage postage, it brings a soft botanical elegance to mailings rooted in romance, gardens, family, 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.

GUMMED STAMPS: These postage stamps have a traditional moisture-activated gum on the back. These stamps require licking or wetting to adhere to envelopes or other surfaces. To ensure good adhesion, apply vintage gummed stamps to your mailings with a glue stick (we recommend using Elmer's "Re-Stick" glue sticks).

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.