Add soft floral beauty to your letters with these vintage unused Spring Garden Flowers series “Lilac” postage stamps! Featuring a charming purple lilac design, this botanical stamp is perfect for wedding invitations, save-the-dates, thank you notes, spring celebrations, garden-inspired correspondence, and other meaningful mailings. 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: Lilac
• Stamp Series: Spring Garden Flowers / Garden Flowers
• Year Issued: 1993
• Face Value: 29-cents (USD) per stamp
• Topic(s): Lilac, Garden Flowers, Spring Flowers, Botanical, Floral, Nature
• Color(s): Purple, Green, Multicolored
• Mailing Occasions: Wedding Invitations, Spring Weddings, Garden Weddings, Bridal Showers, Baby Showers, Save-the-Dates, Thank You Notes, Mother’s Day Mail, Easter Mail, Birthday Cards, Floral Correspondence
• Printing Method: Lithographed, Engraved
• Scott Number: 2764
• 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 Lilac stamp features a delicate cluster of purple lilac blossoms with green leaves, presented as part of a larger bouquet design across the Spring Garden Flowers booklet pane. The stamp’s floral artwork gives the design a fresh, garden-inspired look, while the black intaglio text identifies the denomination, country, and flower name. Issued on May 15, 1993, in Spokane, Washington, the Spring Garden Flowers stamps were released at the 55th annual Spokane Lilac Festival and International Lilac Society Convention. The series reflected public interest in bright, attractive floral stamps and became the first in a group of seasonal garden flower booklets. The stamp artwork was created by Ned Seidler and engraved by Richard Everett of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

FLOWER DESCRIPTION: Lilacs are beloved flowering shrubs known for their fragrant, clustered blossoms, which commonly appear in shades of lilac, mauve, purple, and white. Common lilac, or Syringa vulgaris, is native to the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe, where it grows on rocky hillsides. The plant is widely cultivated in gardens and parks throughout temperate regions, especially for its sweet spring fragrance and ornamental flower panicles. Lilacs are deciduous shrubs or small trees with heart-shaped green leaves, and their blossoms have long been associated with springtime, memory, renewal, and nostalgic beauty.

STAMP MEANING & SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE: Lilacs are often associated with renewal, tenderness, memory, and the emotional beauty of spring. Their fragrant blossoms can symbolize first love, fresh beginnings, and the gentle return of warmth after winter. On mail, the lilac stamp brings a soft, romantic, and heartfelt quality, making it especially meaningful for wedding correspondence, spring celebrations, notes of remembrance, and messages filled with affection, gratitude, or hope.

STAMP SERIES HISTORY: The Spring Garden Flowers booklet was issued on May 15, 1993, in Spokane, Washington, at the Spokane Lilac Festival and International Lilac Society Convention. The booklet included five 29-cent garden flower stamps: hyacinth, daffodil, tulip, iris, and lilac. The artwork was created by Ned Seidler, who used photographs and flower books as inspiration and worked in watercolor and gouache. Richard Everett of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing engraved the designs. The Spring Garden Flowers booklet began a seasonal flower booklet concept that continued with later summer, fall, and winter flower issues.

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.