Add cheerful winter garden beauty to your letters with these vintage unused Winter Garden Flowers series “Winter Aconite” postage stamps! Featuring a bright golden-yellow bloom nestled close to the earth, this charming botanical design is perfect for save-the-dates, wedding invitations, thank you cards, shower invites, winter correspondence, garden-inspired stationery, and other meaningful 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. Bring a touch of winter sunshine to your envelopes with this lovely vintage flower stamp!

Purchase includes a total of TEN (10) mint condition postage stamps shown in the product listing photos.

STAMP INFORMATION:

• Name: Winter Aconite
• Series: Winter Garden Flowers / Garden Flowers
• Year Issued: 1996
• Face Value: 32-cents (USD) per stamp
• Topic(s): Flowers, Winter Garden Flowers, Botanical, Gardening, Seasonal Blooms
• Color(s): Yellow, Gold, Green, Brown, Multicolored
• Mailing Occasions: Winter Weddings, Save-the-Dates, Garden Weddings, Thank You Cards, Bridal Showers, Baby Showers, Birth Announcements, Holiday Mail, Botanical Stationery
• Printing Method: Lithographed and Engraved
• Scott Number: 3026
• Adhesion Type: Gummed (see adhesion instructions below)
• Condition: Genuine Unused USPS Postage Stamps, Ready to Use for USPS Mailings, Mint Condition

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 the adequate amount of additional postage to achieve standard postage rates according to the weight of your mailing. Check current postage rates at USPS.com.

STAMP DESCRIPTION & HISTORY: The 1996 32-cent Winter Aconite postage stamp was issued as part of the Winter Garden Flowers booklet, a seasonal botanical release celebrating flowers that bloom during the colder months. This graceful stamp features the winter aconite, a bright yellow flower admired for appearing early in the year, often before winter has fully passed. Its warm color and delicate garden form make it a beautiful choice for vintage postage designs, especially for winter mailings, floral stationery, wedding invitations, and garden-inspired correspondence.

FLOWER DESCRIPTION: Winter aconite is a small, early-blooming perennial known for its golden-yellow, buttercup-like flowers. One of the first blooms to appear in late winter or very early spring, winter aconite often emerges before many other garden plants have awakened. Its vivid yellow petals and surrounding green foliage create a cheerful contrast against bare soil, fallen leaves, or even light snow. Because of its bright seasonal appearance, winter aconite is often associated with the first signs of spring and the quiet return of warmth and color.

STAMP MEANING & SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE: Winter aconite carries a beautiful symbolic meaning of hope, resilience, renewal, and light returning after hardship. Because it blooms so early in the year, often before spring has truly arrived, it represents optimism, courage, and the promise that brighter days are coming. For wedding stationery and heartfelt correspondence, this stamp offers a meaningful message of new beginnings, faithful love, and joy blooming even in life’s colder seasons.

STAMP SERIES HISTORY: The Garden Flowers series was created to celebrate seasonal flowers through beautifully illustrated USPS postage designs. The Winter Garden Flowers booklet was first issued on January 19, 1996, in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, and continued the seasonal garden theme with flowers known for bringing beauty to the colder months. The winter booklet included crocus, winter aconite, pansy, snowdrop, and anemone, arranged as part of a graceful botanical composition. The stamp artwork was created by Ned M. Seidler, with Derry Noyes serving as art director. Together, the stamps form a charming winter garden scene and remain a lovely choice for vintage postage collectors, flower lovers, and anyone seeking meaningful botanical postage.

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).

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.


Product Specifications

Length: 1.73 in.
Height: 0.01 in.
Width: 0.98 in.
Weight: 0.01 lbs.