Stamp Cartoons

Stamp Cartoons

For nearly one hundred years, from 1890-1990, philately featured on the regular basis in the daily newspaper “comics” section. This publicity not only helped popularize the hobby, it also showed the popular conception of stamp collectors as avid and a bit nerdy. Below we’ve reprinted several cartoons from this byegone era.

‘To you Herbert, your uncle leaves, as a hedge against inflation, a stash of U.S. Forever postage stamps.’

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