On Wednesday I wrote about buying Mighty Mississippi commemorative stamps for Hubby Tony. Liz at
Finding Life Hard asked if I could post a photo of my purchase. I would be delighted to.
Whenever possible I choose commemorative stamps instead of generic ones. According to the USPS website, the pane arrangement on the front of this sheet of ten stamps shows the north/south and west/east location of each state.
The stamp details:
- Minnesota shows the headwaters at Lake Itasca
- Wisconsin offers an autumn view of the Great River Road
- Iowa shows a steamboat near the city of Bettendorf
- Illinois displays a sailboat passing limestone bluffs
- Missouri illustrates the St. Louis skyline and Gateway Arch at sundown
- Kentucky presents the city of Wickliffe just downriver from where the Ohio River joins
- Arkansas offers a levee next to a forest and farmland
- Tennessee shows a towboat pushing a row of barges upstream toward Memphis
- Louisiana offers the New Orleans skyline and Crescent City Connection bridge
- Mississippi shows a delta bayou and cypress trees with Spanish moss
And after all that information, on the back of the sheet there’s a map of the river and its major tributaries.
But you're supposed to COLLECT those stamps, not use them. That's how the USPS makes extra money. 😄
ReplyDeleteBummer for them that we use stamps as postage.
DeleteVery nice -Christine cmlk79.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteI think this is cool tho
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Very interesting information about commemorative stamps. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI like to buy unusual Stamps even just for Mailing, they've had some good ones over the years. A few Panels I've kept as a Collection. They had a block once that had every State.
ReplyDeleteI ALWAYS choose a commemorative stamp over a generic one.
DeleteI would love to take a road trip vacation down the Mississippi from headwaters along its journey to the sea.
ReplyDeleteAfter taking the River Road on our trip to Galena I think the entirety is on my list too. (Although maybe broken into sections.)
DeleteOnly just seen this! Thank you for posting. Lovely stamps and what a huge and long river it is. Hope I get to see it one day.
ReplyDeleteThe Mississippi is the second longest river in the country. It's eclipsed by the Missouri, one of its tributaries.
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