Words & Eggs

iconoclassic:

italy stamp grainedit.com/2011/09/06/bike-stamps-from-italy/ (by P-E Fronning)

Bulgarian folk tales stamp, via Stefan Kanchev. More images on my blog (click through).

Have a shop on Etsy, Big Cartel, etc? Add a cool, personalized touch to your packages with this custom hand-lettered “Handmade By” stamp featuring your shop’s web address!

Available in my Letter Be shop on Etsy.

Gift tag featuring vintage Norwegian postage & my Letter Be calligraphy stamp. (I’m only a little obsessed with stamps.) Check out my Etsy shop for more images.

Letter be handwritten.

From my collection: 1971 Sorbische Tanztracht postage stamp: Sorbian dance costume series.

From the DDR/GDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik / German Democratic Republic).

Vintage Czech postage stamp, via We Love Typography.

Vintage Swiss “Helvetia” postage stamp, via @superdilettante.

(Source: quellequaintrelle, via superdilettante)

Mary Kate McDevitt is awesome.

Via yourhandwrittenletters:

This is stamped on the back of each Handwritten Letter. The stamp is pretty big and I don’t have a stamp pad large enough so I actually used a brayer to apply wood block ink to the stamp. This project is full of fun little surprises! 

(via prettyclever)

iconoclassic:

United Nations Postage Stamps – Part 3 (by Aqua-Velvet)

I have some genuine articles (in color) of these bad boys.

Via numberoftheday:

German stamp designs by Max Hertwig (1881–1975)

(via Steven Heller at Imprint)

(Source: michalva)

stampdesigns:

Iran postage stamp: pen nibs

c. 1972, in honor of International Literacy Day

(Source: stampdesigns)

numberoftheday:

The Voice of America / Design by Georg Olden, 1967
via Letterology

goodmailday:

Postage, 1949 Envelope (by takeabreak)

stampdesigns:

Netherlands postage stamp: Jan van Krimpen Numeral 4

c. 1940s/1950s

numerical stamp series designed by Jan van Krimpen

(Source: stampdesigns)