Add vibrant spring colors to your letters with these lovely vintage unused Spring Garden Flowers series “Hyacinth” postage stamps! This classic botanical design is perfect for adding garden-inspired beauty to save-the-dates, wedding invitations, thank you cards, shower invites, birth announcements, 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: Hyacinth
• Stamp Series: Spring Garden Flowers / Garden Flowers
• Year Issued: 1993
• Face Value: 29-cents (USD) per stamp
• Topic(s): Hyacinth, Garden Flowers, Spring Flowers, Botanical, Floral
• Color(s): Yellow, Purple, Red, Green, Multicolored
• Mailing Occasions: Wedding Invitations, Save-the-Dates, Spring Mailings, Garden Parties, Bridal Showers, Baby Showers, Thank You Notes, Easter Mail, Mother’s Day Cards
• Printing Method: Lithographed, Engraved
• Scott Number: 2760
• 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 Hyacinth stamp features a vivid garden-flower design with clustered hyacinth blooms rising among green leaves, forming one portion of the continuous Spring Garden Flowers booklet artwork. Issued as part of the first Garden Flowers booklet, this stamp helped introduce a seasonal floral series designed to bring bright, attractive flower imagery to everyday mail. The Spring Garden Flowers stamps were first issued on May 15, 1993, in Spokane, Washington, and the artwork was illustrated by Ned Seidler with Derry Noyes serving as art director.

FLOWER DESCRIPTION: Hyacinths are bulbous, spring-blooming perennials known for their dense flower spikes, strong fragrance, and richly colored blossoms. The common garden hyacinth is native to western Asia and the eastern Mediterranean region, including areas from southern Turkey through Syria, Lebanon, and northern Israel. Garden varieties are widely cultivated in temperate regions and are especially admired for their early-season blooms in shades of purple, blue, pink, white, yellow, and red. Their upright clusters and sweet scent make them a traditional symbol of spring renewal and fresh beginnings.

STAMP MEANING & SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE: Hyacinths often symbolize sincerity, peace, renewal, and the emotional freshness of spring. Their fragrant blossoms evoke tenderness and remembrance, making this stamp especially fitting for heartfelt correspondence, wedding stationery, sympathy notes, spring celebrations, and messages of affection. The purple coloring also lends the design a sense of elegance, devotion, and quiet beauty.

STAMP SERIES HISTORY: The Spring Garden Flowers series was issued as a booklet of five 29-cent stamps featuring hyacinth, daffodil, tulip, iris, and lilac. First issued on May 15, 1993, in Spokane, Washington, the booklet marked the beginning of a multi-year Garden Flowers series that continued with summer, fall, and winter flower booklets. The stamps featured artwork by illustrator Ned Seidler, with Derry Noyes as art director, and were printed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing using lithographed and engraved methods.

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.