Add graceful floral style to your letters with these stunning vintage unused Spring Garden Flowers series "Iris" postage stamps! This classic botanical design is perfect for adding timeless garden beauty to your save-the-dates, wedding invitations, thank you cards, shower invites, birth announcements, spring celebrations, and other snail mail correspondence. In pristine mint condition and valid for current postage use, each stamp holds a face value of 29-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 postage stamps shown in the product listing photos.

STAMP INFORMATION:

• Stamp Name: Iris
• Stamp Series: Spring Garden Flowers / Garden Flowers
• Year Issued: 1993
• Face Value: 29-cents (USD) per stamp
• Topic(s): Iris, Garden Flowers, Spring Flowers, Botanical, Floral, Nature
• Color(s): Purple, Yellow, Green, Multicolored
• Mailing Occasions: Wedding Invitations, Save-the-Dates, Bridal Showers, Baby Showers, Thank You Notes, Spring Mailings, Garden Party Invitations, Birth Announcements
• Printing Method: Lithographed, Engraved
• Scott Number: 2763
• 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 1993 29-cent Iris stamp features a graceful purple iris blossom with green foliage and yellow accents, presented as part of the Spring Garden Flowers booklet design. The stamp’s floral illustration gives the piece a soft, garden-inspired look, making it especially appealing for romantic, botanical, and spring-themed correspondence. Issued on May 15, 1993, in Spokane, Washington, this stamp belongs to the 1993 Garden Flowers set, which featured five favorite garden flowers: hyacinth, daffodil, tulip, iris, and lilac.

FLOWER DESCRIPTION: Irises are elegant flowering plants known for their showy, sculptural blooms, often with upright petals and cascading “falls” that create their distinctive layered shape. The genus Iris includes many species found primarily throughout temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, including parts of Europe, Asia, and North America. Irises grow in a wide variety of habitats, from meadows and grassy slopes to riverbanks, bogs, woodland edges, rocky mountain regions, and cultivated gardens. Their name is commonly associated with the Greek word for rainbow, reflecting the wide range of colors found across iris varieties.

STAMP MEANING & SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE: The iris is often associated with wisdom, faith, hope, renewal, and meaningful communication. Its graceful form and vivid color make it a fitting symbol for heartfelt messages, new beginnings, admiration, and remembrance. On mail, the Iris postage stamp brings a refined garden sentiment to invitations, announcements, thank you notes, and keepsake correspondence.

STAMP SERIES HISTORY: The Spring Garden Flowers stamps were issued on May 15, 1993, in Spokane, Washington, as the first booklet in a seasonal Garden Flowers series. The booklet featured five 29-cent floral stamps—Hyacinth, Daffodil, Tulip, Iris, and Lilac—arranged as a continuous bouquet. The series grew out of USPS interest in bright, attractive flower stamps for everyday mail, especially as stamps were increasingly sold through supermarkets and other retail locations. Artwork for the Spring Garden Flowers booklet was created by Ned Seidler, with engraving by Richard Everett, and the booklet was printed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing using lithography and engraving.

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.